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asciilifeform: i somehow missed this.
assbot: Let’s Cut To The Chase, Is La Serenissima A Cult? | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski
asciilifeform: or was that article stolen from 'the onion' ?
ben_vulpes: ('cept maybe the skylon)
ben_vulpes: planes don't escape the gravity well.
pete_dushenski: anymore than bricks
ben_vulpes: but the things that one can do with a car don't really hold a candle to those that can be done with large rockets.
ben_vulpes: preferring to walk and bike.
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: oh i own one. rarely use it though.
pete_dushenski: heya punkman how goes the punkbot ?
pete_dushenski: "Taxes and bitcoin, what is this sorcery"
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes i want a giant tower of hydrocarbons << for some reason i didn't even think you had a car
ben_vulpes: http://bablogs.btcscoop.com/ << not actually a thing?
assbot: Trust system - users with most trust list trust
nubbins`: Anduck, you have L2 trust w/ assbot so you can take advantage of deed system
ben_vulpes: but it's kind of an estes scale thing, and i want a giant tower of hydrocarbons atop which to ride out of this gravity well.
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ben_vulpes: yes i have a thing
asciilifeform thought ben_vulpes already did something of the kind at day job
ben_vulpes: flip the ponzi a few times
asciilifeform: why does this need money ?
ben_vulpes: 's the only way.
ben_vulpes: end is a verb in this context.
assbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
ben_vulpes: piped tar into curl
nubbins`: NICE TRY
nubbins`: CIS installed in epson printer. print a file. epson says "it is almost time to replace ink cartridges"
ben_vulpes: pretend there's something smart
ben_vulpes: kinda dodges the question of why would vcs put capital into it.
pete_dushenski: i'd personally be quite interested to see what nanotube would do if given a free $1.5mn
ben_vulpes: give up, web technology will kill your children.
ben_vulpes: what would he need the money for, pete_dushenski? embedding contracts in the blockchain?
assbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
pete_dushenski: https://imgur.com/6HC0yeM << trilema credits: 4 and still no worky!
pete_dushenski: hard to imagine anyone legimitately asking him
ben_vulpes: note to self: next time compress the blockchain *before* copying.
jurov: nonotube doesn't want to join bezzlatron?
assbot: Hey VCs, where's the $1.5mn funding for nanotube's WoT ? http://t.co/gdmiYpx1FA
pete_dushenski: modesty the likes of which would shock a johnny come lately reader
pete_dushenski: "I am by no means convinced it is even correct, but merely the suggestion of it has the sort of breathtaking effect sudden abstraction gives. The reason I’m publishing all this is, of course, that I’m interested to hear what others think. Fill me in below."
pete_dushenski: it's nothing short of incredible to see just how tame mp reads then as opposed to now
pete_dushenski has been reading lots of old trilema articles about the early mpex days
pete_dushenski: then number $7mn is stuck in my mind but i can't dig up the article to confirm
pete_dushenski: can anyone remember the title of that trilema article where mircea_popescu discloses how much he sold that 5% chunk of mpex for?
BingoBoingo: It's those Alien provacateurs
asciilifeform: tuals building emotional superstructures over events that had never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various ‘party lines’.'
asciilifeform: ot even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as the heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellec
asciilifeform: 'I remember saying once to Arthur Koestler, ‘History stopped in 1936’, at which he nodded in immediate understanding. We were both thinking of totalitarianism in general, but more particularly of the Spanish civil war. Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, n
BingoBoingo: Fuck it. The Greys did MH-17
assbot: George Orwell: Looking back on the Spanish War
jurov: i can easily see russians doing it and placing buk in there as diversion
jurov: how are they so certain it's urk fighter?
asciilifeform: and no one, afaik, has fessed up to noticing one.
asciilifeform: the one piece of 'lack of gun' was that a launch is visible and audible for 40km or so around
jurov: dunno we ever solve this here, it's clear as mud
jurov: ^ photos of it allegedly operating at the site
jurov: BUK was the name of the rocket, russians have it and the border is non-existing
asciilifeform: jurov: the pronouncement that he lacked the necessary rocket is not a denial ?
asciilifeform did not endorse rt as truth machine. but notes that, so far, usa has not denied authenticity of the smoking gun.
jurov: but when they pull some "dutch expert" it's suddent sacrosanct truth
jurov: when RT invites amir taaaki as bitcoin expert, it's clear what they are up to
asciilifeform: jurov: this is interestingly reminiscent of orwell's piece on the spanish war.
jurov: so why the separatists were so eager to claim it?
asciilifeform: jurov: mr p's response to australia >> http://www.loper-os.org/pub/lenta.html
nubbins`: it's rough-bottomed, tho, not sure if it's worth such special treatment just ye
nubbins`: this linseed thing is a neat idea tho. my 9" cast iron could use a fresh start
nubbins`: i actually use viscosity as a guide leading up to the smoke point
pete_dushenski: that usg is less threatening by the day i tell you
pete_dushenski: "the crews that maintain the nation’s 450 intercontinental ballistic missiles had only a single wrench that could attach the nuclear warheads. “They started FedExing the one tool” to three bases spread across the country" ☟︎☟︎
jurov: when cooking with olive oil, i can say by smell it's right temp
assbot: How To: Cast Iron Skillet Non-Stick and Lasts a Lifetime
nubbins`: non-scientific take: http://www.richsoil.com/cast-iron.jsp
nubbins`: i won't know when the pan is hot enough!
nubbins`: wtf am i supposed to do now!
nubbins`: jurov / urovj i wait for my oil to smoke before putting food in the pan :/
assbot: Tamerlane's Thoughts: Assad's 31 forms of torture
pete_dushenski: http://karakullake.blogspot.com/2014/11/assads-31-forms-of-torture.html << from the old school
pete_dushenski: assbot is too cool for contravex ?
assbot: Log In - The New York Times
pete_dushenski: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/us/series-of-secret-service-blunders-eased-way-for-white-house-intruder.html?_r=0 << makes that gasenwagen a lot less threatening of a theory
jurov: try to go and conquer
jurov: btw, what else can putin do? taking care of the nation is not capable of enacting western definition of lawful order
nubbins`: "According to MacDonald, Putin did not respond positively. He didn't provide further details."
nubbins`: curious to see what a .ru article about this says :D
assbot: Stephen Harper at G20 tells Vladimir Putin to 'get out of Ukraine' - World - CBC News
The20YearIRCloud: and yet their homelessness problem is still one of the worst in the country
xanthyos: someone should take a box cutter to nancy pelosi's plastic mask
mats_cd03: "... the nation's homeless czar" << lol
mats_cd03: "The city spends $165 million a year on homeless services, about half of which funds supportive housing. That’s one of the highest levels of per-capita spending on homelessness of any city in the nation, said Philip Mangano, who served as the nation’s homeless czar under President Bush."
xanthyos: SF spends its billions laying asphalt for zig-zaggy roads on their hills, not on the homeless
mats_cd03: sure. there are still hills of homeless in SF, despite billions spent trying to fix it
xanthyos: california is a scam state and hollywood has used its media to convince the world that it doesn't suck there, but it really does
xanthyos: as someone who's been homeless i've found it much easier to survive in backwoods towns in minnesota where people are poorer and not politicized
xanthyos: actually liberal "utopias" like sf have very little accomodations for the poor
mats_cd03: 08:56:40 <+BingoBoingo> Seriously though you feed the homeless in someone else's city so they all go there. Pied Piper and shit. << aka San Francisco
xanthyos: using the customer's assumption that banking is a slow process (2 business days) and doubling that hoping they won't notice just to extend their opportunity to abort a sale that's not in their favor
xanthyos: so coinbase gets 4 full days to abort my purchase, which they will, if the prices goes up, and they won't if it levels or drops. with btc market volatility they have a sure thing
xanthyos: http://i.gyazo.com/970002ace57462fba98546820653d316.png << look at the progress bar on an electronic transaction initiated two full days ago. obsolescence.
BingoBoingo: No, easy feel goods are $75 at the massage parlor down by the strip club
nubbins`: anyway, always suspected that guy