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Mocky: in-group fashion
trends, evidently
Mocky: these are
the ones out on
the weekend looking for night life downtown
Mocky: and
the horde of scrawny indian dudes with
their skinny jeans, even
the fat ones still have scrawny legs and wear skinny jeans
mircea_popescu: at
the
time
they were released,
this was a good
tradeoff. meanwhile
the earth aged.
mircea_popescu: bugs need water,
their principal design problem is
that
they have
to be permeable for respiration, which results in water loss.
Mocky: outside last night in
the city, stones
throw from
the bay, staring up at street lights during
the interminable wait at crosswalks, not a single bug circling street lights, not a spider web
Mocky: the insect situation here hard
to fathom.
they just about don't have any. i saw a moth here on
the first day, very small. and another moth outside last night,
tiny.
mircea_popescu: they managed
to erradicate
that much like
the us managed
to erradicate manhood : direct amputation.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, i never heard of
theft in muslim lands, in
the general speaking.
Mocky: she didn't say so and I didn't ask her directly, but I will. She seems like a good asset for making further media contacts and cultural info (topic of magazine) and not direct contact
to locals
Mocky: local Qatari men are shoe-ins for high level company / agency / gov jobs and often inherit a lot of wealth, and only ~100k of
them so
they aren't exactly drawn
to street crimes
Mocky: except for
tourists who are very limited in stay duration
Mocky: she says
that ultimately every foreigner has a single named Qatari sponsor (typically company part-owner) who has
the power
to kick you out anytime and who gets hassled if you cause
trouble
Mocky: BingoBoingo,
this is a short chick, btw, who walks around here alone on a daily basis, with a backpack for 6 years, never gets bothered
Mocky: bought me dinner at an iraqi restaurant. seems like computer security is a huge
thing here. even small companies like her magazine get 'cyber
threats' at least weekly. bigger companies much more so. a lot of website and network hacking goes on.
Mocky: She showed me
the Souq Waqif, a large "street market" 2 city blocks in size, about half indoors (although
the indoor part looks like narrow streets with a roof) it's like
the cultural center for Qataris. various musical 'bands' playing
traditional drum music
Mocky: I met yesterday with a chick who does
the social media and photography for a local magazine. She's not a local but seems
to have a good set of connections and eager
to help me out.
mircea_popescu: Mocky yes, a full report on
this hawala business very valued accomplishment.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-13 00:05 asciilifeform: i still dun fully grasp
the supposed usg feud with qatar -- iirc
the latter sank couple $B into usg's 'moderate rebels'
Mocky:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-13#1861536 >> also sunk $B into building largest military base in
the region for usg. 'feud' seems like public
theatre
to my noob eyes. US is well respected here in contrast
to gulf state back-turners.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2018-10-13 00:00 asciilifeform: i'll be at least slightly surprised if he manages
to penetrate subj; but i like good surprises
mircea_popescu: incidentally, anyone happens
to have Outwitting Dad ? Hollywood Party ? (1930s, oliver hardy films. )
hanbot: anyway
the idea is
to have an exhaustive list of news outlets with
their contact email made, after which i'll have her mail
that blurb; i expect something like a week's
turnaround, and will report when it's done.
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mod6: Well Sir, I'm
thoroughly exausted. :] I better catch some zzz's. I bid you, Good Evening.
mod6: one of
these days I'll have
to
try
to learn
the game.
mod6: *nod* yah, i hardly remember how
to play. i remember it being kinda fun
though,
that and spades.
mod6: Thinking of 'hot
toddy' drinks makes me
think of Euchre.
mod6: probably could make a mint on selling
tickets
to
those events.
mod6: I would pay for ring side seats
to watch
the hamptons fist fight over who gets
to eat
the bark off
the shitty cottonwood
trees
that day
though.
mod6: *nod* sometimes people
throw
them into a warm brandy drink. "hot
tadi?" I
think
they're called.
mod6: i like a bit of cinnamon from
time
to
time
too,
typically in a warm drink
mod6: , and one can go broke betting against
the irrationality of
the whole
thing. But when one-day comes, and
the
tide goes out, only hard assets will remain.
They'll either
take
the Republic's BTC or eat
tree bark like 1777.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> upstack, i suspect mircea_popescu has
the answ
to
the riddle of why bitcoin hasn't killed wu et al -- orcs still perceive having
the option not
to use btc <<
They have
the option, ~for now~. We know,
that
the whole world currently runs on "magic money", currently. However, my hunch is
that "magic money" and worlds built on fraud can not live for forever.
They can last a long
time, however
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> make more
than from coke in a few short years. << amen
mod6: usg has no money. all
they got is BS.
mod6: don't
these dorks listen
to AC/DC? Money
Talks, BS Walks.
mod6: if you got
the money, come on with it
then!
mod6: it's like
this cocksuckers hate money or something
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> if
this ends up settled by
the mailing of a large quantity of alfajores... keks << hahah.
mod6: mmm. about
to eat one of
these cheddarworsts from
the ukr place, and some ribs I smoked.
mod6: So #winning, I
think.
mod6: I did score a goal
though. (Should have had
three if I wasn't such an out of shape pussy.)
mod6: (to
the dismay of my lungs)
mod6 just got back from playing hockey, for
the first
time in nearly a decade.
mircea_popescu: needless
to say at
this rate ima have rick perry anally raped on youtube.
mircea_popescu: some random institution
to employ a coupla gals
that "weren't really working
there".
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in lulz nobody likely gives a shit about : romania apparently has some natgas in its chunk of black sea shelf ; usg wants
to steal
this ; ro senate wrote a law for
them ; ro commons rejected it, because
this one guy (liviu dragnea) said so. his majority collapsed because "hungarian" miniparty changed its mind overnight (ie,
transparently got bought out) and well... guess who is "accused" of supposedly having FORCED
☟︎ mircea_popescu: all
these languages, slovene, serbian, croatian, etceterian...
mircea_popescu: srsly,
the diff between dari and farsi is not unlike
the difference between czech and "slovak"
mircea_popescu: well, i guess
the right answer
to your q is
that i'm way
too lazy
to put
the work into it ? i guess simplest approach would be
to convert a set of
trilema records
to postgres, and
try your pg_trgm
thing on it.
mircea_popescu: but it'd seem
the index would scale on an exponential of record size
mircea_popescu: i guess
there's no way out of implementing some inverse-index or i guess ngram really,
to
test
this out. mebbe my intuition is entirely off
mircea_popescu: ie, what do you
think is
the
trigram index of a 200kb file ?
mircea_popescu: no, i understand
the concept ; what i don't understand is why you
think
this works well for wildly varied size records.
mircea_popescu: how do you mean "works just as well" ?
The pg_trgm module provides functions and operators for determining
the similarity of ASCII alphanumeric
text based on
trigram matching, as well as index operator classes
that support fast searching for similar strings. << seems eminently based on birthday problem, "how many different permutations of 60 characters can
there be"
mircea_popescu: but
trilema has
the converse problem :
there's ks of article, from 2kb
to 200kb or so.
phf: asciilifeform: correct approach is
to download entire
trilema and index it locally. folks who don't bother
to do
that have no business searching it :>
mircea_popescu: all searches
take 1-2s, you realise. course i do
the luxurious LIKE "%x%" format.
mircea_popescu: they're marginally less aggravation in "oh, never heard of
that page"
than
they're productive in "well, dun have
to unlock key"