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asciilifeform: he can set alarm clock, as mircea_popescu suggested, to watch a meteor shower.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: but moreover, 'poor' is a matter of emotion strictly. a brick cannot be poor.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: very nearly 50
trinque: mircea_popescu: not to my knowledge. it'd be a good experiment
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: is a thing, i saw it alive.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: this, as i understand, is typical. you can give yourself an intolerance for just about anything, by avoiding it
asciilifeform: also mircea_popescu - what's it mean, 'think they're somehow poor'
trinque: mircea_popescu: translating lol. I knew an Argentine chick; she did exactly this, and was supposed to be intellectual because of it
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 02:08:18; mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> the other interesting thing is that the market is segmented in such a way that anyone who doesn't want mcfood ends up paying for ~all~ the alt-crackpotteries, not merely the logical ones << this is a very valid point, and the one spot where alf's ideas re meta-lizzards sound most persuasive. i do not believe the market is gerrymandered as it is by accident.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: i bet!
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski /me lived like that for a coupla decades, actually. ro of the 90s was a fab thing.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: surreal experience
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: read '50s e.g., 'popular mechanics' sometime
trinque: mhm, as mircea_popescu noted re: chinese selling of us bonds
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> funkenstein_: comfortable when empty but for you. << ro anecdote. many years ago /me went to pick up new slavegirl, decided on train for return trip. rented out whole compartment. upon entering ordered girl to strip and masturbate. cue VERY amazed train conductor guy checking tickets, level with and two feet away from rubbed clit.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 01:42:49; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in usa folks are gouged for rent, not for food.
asciilifeform has who to cook for him, and isn't even a mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: funkenstein_: i did, when i did
asciilifeform: funkenstein_: most folks i know who have the option of going on the train, do
mats: 21:57:42 — +funkenstein_ stood shoulder to shoulder in packed train today comfortably reading book << reminds me when i'd catch a nap in the cattle car during movements between barracks and training site, fully burdened by gear and supported on all sides by other dudes
asciilifeform: funkenstein_ must then have peculiar notion of 'comfortable'
asciilifeform: funkenstein_: comfortable when empty but for you.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 00:53:24; mircea_popescu: well how about fuck that. no "bigger blocks", no mass transit, no government anything.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 01:07:48; *: mircea_popescu is stuffed with TWO!!! homemade round breads + argentine milanesa (schnitzel really). fucking delicious.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in usa folks are gouged for rent, not for food. ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 01:06:47; mircea_popescu: and now salary is, for 50% of the population, based on the mcdonalds mchappyshit
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 01:06:14; mircea_popescu: mod6 not like the fatsos couldn't buy cheap shit and cook at home.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: today - meatwot
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: originally - family
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu just happened upon an unpatched mouse, that's all..
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> tho they have nfi about dairy. << that one italian place had some decent cheese iirc... but perhaps it was imported.
asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> and it's EXACTLY like, junkies COULD do something else with their time << what, exactly? theorems ?
mod6: mircea_popescu: one thing about food in b-a, it's amazing how good /real/ food tastes! lol.
asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> so instead of steel bars limiting access to subway to only people that can fit through << EXACTLY like that thing they have at airports, for briefcases 1!!1
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 00:26:41; mircea_popescu: ahahaha wouldn't they like to "bring democracy" to china too
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> fedex all the people! << haha
mod6: mircea_popescu can scarcely believe all the ustards have to talk about is whether men sit like this or like that << ikr! i heard some lawyer say to another lawyer on the train, "mind your man spread bro". ☟︎
asciilifeform: or, from peanut gallery, http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2006/03/the_gate_of_ijt.html
asciilifeform: http://www.jstor.org/stable/162939?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is rather like writing 'stopped breathing' on death certificate. yes, accurate...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has one too...
asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> if you also know, the same way, why do you want it ? if you do not, why do you aim to be involved in this ? << that's the magic moment where engineer typically understands (or worse, does not) that the standard is a hierarchical imposition, rather than an act of education like teaching a child to add and substract
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 19:57:46; ascii_field: and mircea_popescu is gonna love this one, http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/08/ashley-madison-abusing-dmca-to-put-genie-back-in-the-bottle-eff-says
ag3nt_zer0: mircea_popescu: hahah ok understandable
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo no i meant ag3nt_zer0 s crop. i don't read the other fucktard but i know what he'sa saying anywa
asciilifeform: ag3nt_zer0: monkeys are 'entitled' to your flesh and twelve generations'. this is in the konstitooshin or similar.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> dawg im not reading that idiot yale grad's bland prose. << It's from their forum. User asks why upgrade left them with a bunch of .js and Derpomatic says if you don't like it install a plugin
asciilifeform: ag3nt_zer0: interfering with the men-to-monkey converter 'would be r4c1s7!!!!'
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=03-12-2014#944325 << see thread. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 23:11:23; pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-09-2015#1260034 << anyone with a better eye for 'nuke' damage smell bullshit here ?
asciilifeform: ag3nt_zer0: it is sop, and i know a fella personally who went into and then, a few years later, quit teaching school, for reasons not entirely unlike what was described in your link.
ag3nt_zer0: I do wonder if this type of scene has its foreign parallels or if it is largely a US phenomena: http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_1_how_i_joined.html
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 22:23:12; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-09-2015#1259717 << >> https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_C
shinohai: Now I am forlorn pete_dushenski because on more thought my housecleaner speaks Spanish. xD
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski much better!
assbot: Logged on 02-04-2014 20:35:41; mircea_popescu: whoa check that out, apparently you can say intelligent things in spanish!
assbot: Logged on 15-08-2014 04:13:32; mircea_popescu: i only talk spanish to my horse
assbot: Logged on 21-09-2014 16:33:51; mircea_popescu: and spanish is like alien, can't be learned by humans, unlike lisp and scheme
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 17:44:35; ascii_field: '“They use terms to find evidence of whether someone is trying to hide their activities because evidence of a cover-up is frequently more potent than the evidence of the alleged crime,” Brodsky said.'
mircea_popescu: an' in other news, http://40.media.tumblr.com/b46e0ee242925ffdaf36955d51ed3ed7/tumblr_n27q4nqm1j1rjbi2lo1_500.jpg
shinohai: When I quote mircea_popescu on twitter, I generally always link here or to trilema.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: s/always/long then.
pete_dushenski: shinohai: because as stupid as english-speakers are today, this hasn't always been the case. whereas spanish, as mircea_popescu points out, has always been the language of slaves.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 17:22:41; ascii_field: BingoBoingo et al: http://fusion.net/story/191544/wikipedia-editors-just-banned-381-accounts-over-a-huge-fraud-and-extortion-scandal
assbot: Successfully added a rating of 1 for pete_dushenski with note: Author of contravex, one of my favorite blogs.
shinohai: !v assbot:shinohai.rate.pete_dushenski.1:da8a7593454219e9202301e85f30fa13fa6578f82140f30e805bd03d632c2280
shinohai: !rate pete_dushenski 1 Author of contravex, one of my favorite blogs.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 21:19:18; funkenstein_: for those interested in old thread re: joe vialls, we have http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/08/25/confirmation-tianjin-was-nuked/
assbot: You have not rated pete_dushenski.
shinohai: !rated pete_dushenski
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 17:43:46; ascii_field: 'Evasion techniques can get creative. Raj Rajaratnam, the fund manager convicted in 2011 of insider trading, would write “fon” instead of “phone.” Prosecutors said they suspected the intentional misspelling was meant to distract the all-seeing electronic Javert of Control-F.' << gold
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Because words don't mean anything in 'Murica
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Last election cycle it joined the Missouri state consitution's bill of rights
BingoBoingo: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/judge-missouri-right-to-farm-doesn-t-cover-marijuana/article_eba50d05-6bc4-562f-8251-e79ad766e736.html
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-09-2015#1259717 << >> https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_C ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: ascii_field see basically, standard AS A THING even exist because
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the above is kinda why i laugh at all the non-sexpr languages.
mircea_popescu: !up ascii_field `
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i think that's an undefined result of an out of domain operation you're choosing to interpret a certain way.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: if anything, there is ~less~ slack than with any physical screw
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> it is when it ~began~ << yes, and engineering in "making real objects" sense is exactly that. but from this it does not follow that the same everywhere!
mircea_popescu: ascii_field ever read a math "technical manual" ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: concerning the RSTs: know that it is not difficult for these to be sent via spoofed packet
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 21:51:18; mircea_popescu: incidentally : bitcoin is, as is, both needlessly and too fucking complex.
jurov: mircea_popescu: you don't forget you also run a boiler room
ascii_field: lemme guess, sitting on a disk with 100 versions of mircea_popescucoin ?
ascii_field: the error msg most closely corresponds to the line in therealbitcoin linked last night. but i do not know what mircea_popescu has there, and won't know unless he shares the snippet. so it gets left here.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i don't have it tho.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field thanks. alrighty, leave this for now until i can have something more sensible to say from this end.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i will have you know that i combed ~5GB of packet dump and found not a trace of your magic tx.
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Now that monero is off the table, may have time for that. Just trying to shave a few unecessary bytes here and there out of the Qntra
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i do not know why the man lied.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: log in and see for yourself.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field for what it's worth, dc swears up and down and has under grilling for the past coupla days that, in its own english, "By the way, our admin monitors said that no unplanned reboots were not."
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: but more generally, you don't get to play tax games in usa if you are small change.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes of course he will.
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: if title is in company's name, the income - theoretically - is only the market value of leasing the property
ben_vulpes: regarding that ancient optimization of expenditures thread, in america the ceo will have to report his place of residence if purchased/rented by the company as income, correct asciilifeform, mircea_popescu?
shinohai: -__-