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phf: apparently terza is a pure sakhalin invention, stos is known in u.s. as faro or pharaoh and bura while also a custom prison game is essentially thirty-one
phf: atch your opponnent, it's your right, know how to cheat yourself, know how to dispute a questionable win. a game is always between two people -- one on one. none of the pros would degrade themselves by participating in a group game like ochko. none would be scared to play against a strong “performer” either -- like in chess a real pro looks for a strong oponnent."
phf: (a rather butchered translation) "it was sevochka, a famous expert at terza, stos and bura, the three traditional card games. he was a master of the extensive ruleset, strict adherence to which was mandatory in any real confrontation. they said about sevochka that he is an “excellent performer” that is he shows the skill and the agility of a card sharp. of course he actually was a card sharp; an honest theifs game is a game of deceit: observe and c
a111: Logged on 2017-07-20 23:54 asciilifeform: hether there was any likelihood of being passed a false banknote and whether he could pass on a false note himself. There was no definite system involved in all this. Sometimes a fist like a hairy water-melon would appear in the little window, but it was obvious that Tatarsky could quite safely send its owner to hell and beyond. Then sometimes Tatarsky's heart would skip a beat in fright at the sight of a slim female hand
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-22#1688938 << this is actually a great puzzler ( what is it that folx feel cheated of, when they are cheated at cards ) ☝︎
mircea_popescu: there's edges of this observable everywhere in nature. why make car insurance mandatory ? so that every idiot with a donut has a certain kind of principal behind him, so accidents can stay accidents and you can actually get your car fixed rather than "hurr durr i'm anon pothead, lolz".
mircea_popescu: yes, you live in a most strange of places :D where you aim to live it was quite customary.
asciilifeform: not being a gurl, i dun see any blur in the line between the willingly and unwillingly given wine , b/w friend and foe
mircea_popescu: can you say "no one is a friend of mine" ? and if you can, what does it mean, "wine" ?
asciilifeform: uninvited guest in your house at night, is rarely a friend.
mircea_popescu: and i suppose if i were come to your house tomorrow unbidden, sit on your couch and pour myself a glass of wine you'll say you weren't robbed ?
asciilifeform: and are as desirable a thing to have around, as cancer and landslides.
asciilifeform: how would it make a diff to me how the robber spends it.
mircea_popescu: if you spend it, does it make a difference to you what you spend it on ?
asciilifeform: i dun see how this applies to robbery tho. how does it make a diff to me ~why~ i am being robbed.
mircea_popescu: all the difference in the world, neh ? what difference does it make for whom the postman brings letters ? well, if he brings othello letters from desdemona, he is a sort of cupid ; and if they are from the doge, a sort of mercury.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-22 10:14 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1688195 << are you satisfied re this point, by the way ? trinque's "not a man" item wasn't much pursued, but it is substantial enough.
mircea_popescu: which is the whole item here : yes usg seduces a bunch of dorks, but what i am saying is that a) i'm not seduced myslef and b) i do not think very much of they who are.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1688195 << are you satisfied re this point, by the way ? trinque's "not a man" item wasn't much pursued, but it is substantial enough. ☝︎☟︎
BingoBoingo: It is a sentence!
BingoBoingo: And the latest from the delusionists: "If Trump abuses his presidential powers to pardon in a way that obstructs justice, he could be prosecuted under a future administration."
BingoBoingo: In other quotes from the wild: “The question that needs to be answered is, was this shooting a mistake or was it a “cultural seizure” by a Muslim officer who snapped and acted irrationally at the sight of a woman in her pajamas?”
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's a concept.
asciilifeform: why in satan's name wouldja want a spiked-all-over musketball
mircea_popescu: curious if he finds a workable goebbels.
BingoBoingo: Of course he was going to suck. Didn't believe in "The Great Again" and tried repping Trump like a Lindsey Graham oldster.
mod6: im just lucky that the woodpeckers go after the trees as opposed to the structure, or i'd be spending a lot more time in the backyard like rambo
BingoBoingo: <trinque> I'm 30 now; 90s amount to a vague memory of "people might've done things before. maybe in the 80s?" << AHA http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-20#1687077 ☝︎
deedbot: http://www.contravex.com/2017/07/21/what-is-israel-anymore/ << » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - What is Israel anymore?
phf: 27, she's a member of the 27 club
trinque: > feel like a lady, and you my ladyboy
mircea_popescu: "keen eye for the superficial" is not much of a qualification.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 16:15 phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1687972 << i'm not sure that's a criticism that can be leveled at pelevin, he's got other traps though. he has a keen eye for the present, but then he adds a layer of interpretation very much in the style of This Is What's Really Happening, which is usually of esoteric nature. his bratki take psychedelic mushrooms "to get fucked up next level!1" and accidentally break into the a shared buddhist realm of higher being, t
mircea_popescu: phf in fairness might be an age thing again. a few years make all the difference in humor like in war.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 19:32 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1688395 << there was no real us 90s. whole thing was just a derpy kumbaya of inept hipsters crawling out of the lousy studios with "i told you so" placards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVmpNZ31CXw is about all of it.
mircea_popescu: "to the magic of the moment on a glory night... here's more words without any particular meanings... it's the way of tomooooroooo"
trinque: hah, paints a picture.
trinque: strikes me every time when I get a whiff of the apparent.. "placehood" what american folks would've referred to as the "post-soviet collapse space" of the 90s, had
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 16:12 trinque: I'm 30 now; 90s amount to a vague memory of "people might've done things before. maybe in the 80s?"
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1688395 << there was no real us 90s. whole thing was just a derpy kumbaya of inept hipsters crawling out of the lousy studios with "i told you so" placards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVmpNZ31CXw is about all of it. ☝︎☟︎
ave1: I see it was just so that a little id could be printed in the end, very stupid
asciilifeform: ( on a box where i already happened to have it, it got past the hg thing. but pretty ridiculous that it even exists. )
mircea_popescu: trinque http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1688385 << uncle vania will give you A COSTUME and something to do. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2013-12-22 16:56 asciilifeform: 'what people “want” is a function of what they learn is available. e.g., do Americans want three-ring binders, and Europeans four-ring binders? or do they want binders and take whatever number of holes they come with? or do they want something that can help them organize their papers and take whatever is available? or do they really want a less cluttered office and ease of storage and retrieval of the infor
ave1: asciilifeform: for http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1688362, it looks like you are building with adacore 2016 edition, could you try with the 2015 edition (no need to do a real install, just unpack it and set path to the bin dir will be enough) ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i have a naked girl in my livingroom on all fours with a brush going at the carpet. whom should i call ?
asciilifeform: lol that's a diff project
asciilifeform: ( bonus if it IS a pen, writes. )
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 18:08 mircea_popescu: could by now make ACTUAL bug-sized and looking item, with metal pike, insert into tree. solar + etc. triangulate and what, congrats you found a $15 prize ?
mircea_popescu: this is something a certain sort of mind can simply take or leave ; but another sort absolutely desperately craves.
asciilifeform: he got his -- but a little too low, into the neck
mircea_popescu: so the bidniss case is here. mostly a matter of whether we can get the ops together.
mircea_popescu: besides, a mail point in the empire of the future can't hurt anything, and so on and so forth.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not a bad strategy but not immune to augmenting.
mircea_popescu: we can use her to i dunno, open a booth at chinese university distribute flyers.
mircea_popescu: in any event, the business case is right here : if hireling gets 2k/month and takes less trhan a week to find alf's above 5k esp8266s at 22cents each, we in fact have positive roi on the scheme (for that week).
mircea_popescu: im hiring a uci. ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hiring a hireling for a l1wot work is recipe for evaporatiing money and no moar imho
mircea_popescu: is this something the foundation may maybe consider ? open us an embassy in beijing, hire a chick to sit there 4 hours/day or such ? ☟︎
asciilifeform: gotta have, i suspect, a real, live cn fella in wot.
mircea_popescu: it's iffy. i suppose by now we actually should employ a china-based supplies expert ?
asciilifeform: i did, but must be doing it wrong, they only offer a) the pcb 2) chip, but for >= price the pcb sells at.
mircea_popescu: if it costs dearly it's gonna be a chopper noit a balloon.
mircea_popescu: "would a spherical vacuum do ?"
mircea_popescu: you could prolly get the street urchins involved, if only you can provide rifles for them. this is becoming a sort of "isis in mosul" deal
mircea_popescu: or a friend. or nothing at all, his bb goes 70 meters a second, your baloon maybe .5
asciilifeform: ( other obvious recipe for headache for balloon hunter - bouquet'em , with 5x redundancy. now he needs a machine-gun )
mircea_popescu: fucking squirrels. try leading those for a nervewracking experience.
mircea_popescu: mod6 he's not a hunter, it shows.
mircea_popescu: oh, i gotta get the stage whores get me a spot light too ?! say it's not so, inconvenience unthinkable.
mircea_popescu: he's goingto have one launchy spot, and ima sit in a chair across the street from it.
mircea_popescu: yeah, right, he's gonna disperse his launch pads over a 1200km area
mircea_popescu: phf you realise that me + daisy rifle = pest control for a fleet of 5k baloons/hour or somesuch ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ideally, buy a fucking chinese drone, just for the hell of it.
phf: also can probably string them as far as adams morgan zoo from your bunker, have a secondary effect as definitely getting labeled as terrorist when caught (lizard territory)
asciilifeform: btw asciilifeform is STILL, 3y !! after the original thread, looking for a supplier of RAW esp8266
asciilifeform: one gotcha is that the immediate practical ( vs 'fleet in being' ) value of such a thing is ~0.
mircea_popescu: could by now make ACTUAL bug-sized and looking item, with metal pike, insert into tree. solar + etc. triangulate and what, congrats you found a $15 prize ? ☟︎
phf: i'm a soviet man, i prepare my own defense even before i start thinking about doing it
mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 nothing is going on. go right ahead and generate a proper privkey, compute safely its associated address, and move your coins there.
ag3nt_zer0: I dont know if there is a risk in transferring NOW seeing as this segwit stuff is going on... is there any kind of chance my coins won't be signed properly or something like this?
mircea_popescu: at a certain loss of density, surely.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-05 23:00 asciilifeform: but as a massively-distributed long-term backup, aluminum is ~unbeaten -- it's probably the only reason asciilifeform was able to find a copy of genera
mircea_popescu: motherfucker, my library in ro could produce a pail a week. a FULL pail.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i had taken you for a man who has and lived with a library. i am one of those also, and i have nfi how you can not immediately think of the
asciilifeform: sorta why it worx as a cap
mircea_popescu: how is it not a book. will fucking outlats ANY paper support.
asciilifeform: except it ain't a book, it's a 1980s capacitor from su
asciilifeform: and anywhere you can spread a clothesline, you get princely reception
a111: Logged on 2017-07-13 18:40 mircea_popescu: http://68.media.tumblr.com/2fc0db5e94b5ec60a1a6cf24f2b64ae7/tumblr_o5k91cVFvc1tgs3fno1_1280.png << this incidentally is a fine example of what i mean by http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-02#1664458 : bed-door clearance ? exactly enough to fit a standing chick, if were thin, AND NO MORE.
mircea_popescu: this is not at all a bad idea. possibly more expensive than the originally contemplated.
mircea_popescu: let it be clearly stated that there's no such thing in nature as the isolated republican. true thay you may be busy working for a long time, but in the end, isolated citizen == cpu without i/o.
trinque: did the "revdep-rebuild" and "fix_libtool_files.sh" and apparently none of these ever conceived of a man that wished to go back
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 17:30 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform + die 'Failed to build gcc-4.9.5' << you clearly have the wrong one. because this is a thing now, "wrong 4.9"
trinque: attempted a downgrade back to 4.x, how naive!
trinque: I've got a gentoo box that's severely tangled due to it having hauled in >gcc-5 with whichever portage gnat, something something ABI change C++2017 bright future (TM)
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1688367 << aw look, brightest minds of the empire tracking trilema a few years late. isn't this cute. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform + die 'Failed to build gcc-4.9.5' << you clearly have the wrong one. because this is a thing now, "wrong 4.9" ☟︎
phf: so reading pelevin back then might've had a very different effect from reading him now. chapayev and pustota then blew my mind because i read it when it came out and it was very present time, but his 2000s stuff i don't get at all (because i read it in u.s. perhaps), and some things didn't age that well.
trinque: can say that "ah I read some alan watts and huxley, my getting high has a point" *was* that kind of signaling in my younger stoner circles, can see how mp would get there.