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asciilifeform: ended up driving self and pet over to my consulting shop, where the toilets never fail.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, suggestion : move to istanbul for the week. free airfare if hyou got the miles, like 100 a night for downtown hotel
mircea_popescu: da fuck is with that place.
asciilifeform: they parade around with dour 'remember the vietnam war!' banners
asciilifeform: turns out, it's that day of the year when thousands of motorcyclists converge on the city
asciilifeform: more hilariously, when first discovered the problem, tried to decamp to a hotel. 9 hotels, all booked.
mircea_popescu: well in cr they never destroyed the pipes, what can ido
asciilifeform: if only we had an alligator here. i could extract it, own the gear.
mircea_popescu: ^ she was there for the exercise.
mircea_popescu: i couldn't guess why. i was fucking impressed, i mean of all the problems one could be ready to solve...
mircea_popescu: by evening my flushing was fine again. and yet somehow it's the centroamericans that have the reputation for laziness and inefficiency
mircea_popescu: turns out, an aligator was trying to traverse the sewage got himself stuck.
mircea_popescu: eventually THERE IS BLOOD EVERYWHERE
mircea_popescu: a special truck arives, there\'s like nine men in my house, all fighting with the bathroom
mircea_popescu: after a coupla hours the entire bathroom is taken apart, everyone's talking lively in phones
mircea_popescu: they got some metal wire tools and so forth. they go ait it
mircea_popescu: pulls out phone starts talking lively into it
mircea_popescu: he tries some basic maneuvers of a slightly more elevated hardcoreness
mircea_popescu: the clearly "had been in prison" tough guy that owned the building.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, so one morning i go to bathroom, i flush when done, it won't drain. i call administratora, she calls her.... well not exactly husband.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: do tell
mircea_popescu: and it shocks them
mircea_popescu: someone should make a youtube app whereby the person inserts the metallic dongle up their butt
fluffypony: I can't get through more than 2 minutes, I don't have 8 hours to waste
fluffypony: 8 hours of tutorial
assbot: Petaminx Tutorial - Full - YouTube
mircea_popescu: did i ever tell you the story of my clogged toilet in costa rica btw ?
mircea_popescu: and you live there ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, jurov: presently juggling CAD and... getting sewer service to my building again. (beautiful story. water contractor destroyed drain pipe on entire street, claims to have fixed it. fountains of shit from the bath! still!)
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: davout i dont know, why you keep making trouble and asking us to solve it?! <<< werd!
mircea_popescu: jurov: asciilifeform: and when will the nonsatanic implementation ship? << for srs!
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Apparently it is the amount the extortionist was seeking
mircea_popescu: or is he giving the informant a 50%+.1 sort of deal ?
mircea_popescu: 37.6 BTC reward for information that leads to the arrest of the hacker that is trying to hack all my stuff at the moment. details to come! << lol so all the btc roger ver still has left come to 75.2 ?
assbot: De ce-s nesuferiti tehnicienii ? pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: pfoah so random comment on trilema brought to fore an article that's like... exceptional. http://trilema.com/2012/de-ce-s-nesuferiti-tehnicienii/ i gotta have this translated. any romanian speakers (preferably not native) looking for a job ?
mircea_popescu: |OgNasty: Any newly generated coins donated to nastyfans we can consider as NASTY MINING. I could identify these and maybe we vote to set policy that NASTY MINING always gets at least 25% of mined coins?"
mircea_popescu: either the shah of brunei does or he is not in.
mircea_popescu: this part is not negotiable, i don't give a shit how special anyone thinks anyone is. each and every last one sec comissioner, president or prime minister, everyone must, no matter what, getr in wot and so on.
mircea_popescu: but generally, if people want to be part of the future, they will HAVE TO come here, make friends, become one of us.
mircea_popescu: people can suggest blogs through adding them to their own feeds or w/e they do when they want to read blogs.
mircea_popescu: pankkake:I was wondering about blogs of non-asseters actually << if you do that ima stop reading it altogether.
mircea_popescu: these people, seriously. "o i am great and wonderful give me stuff". what in the living fuck.
mircea_popescu: Naureen Nayyar☀ ‏@norabean · now #omg #bitcoin feel free to donate to me :P “@BTC_PRICE: bitstamp: $586
mircea_popescu: tiny voter turnout.
mircea_popescu: lol so ukip won the eu electuons ?
BingoBoingo: Well, at least Idi Amin isn't still removing all of the asians from "Scotland"
mircea_popescu: "f you're Indian and Muslim you're screwed . UKIP will be in power here, they gonna send you India, but Nazi Modi is in power there."
mircea_popescu: i suppose 80% of online misunderstanding flows from this particular/general mismatch, tbh. not from the supposed coldness of the medium.
mircea_popescu: i c. thought you meant in the general.
fluffypony: yes - talking about Monero in particular
mircea_popescu: o you meant for that specific shitcoin in partiuclar, the pow braindamage isn' teven the one braindamage you'd start thre discussion with ?
fluffypony: on the basis of the PoW being the least interesting part about it
mircea_popescu: on the basis of what.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: like the PoW is the defining factor << the pow is a defining factor, what you on about ?
mircea_popescu: punkman: seems strange << few people actually grok opsec. this is probably because most adults were once children, and most children are forced to renounce their hardline attitudes, such as "won't eat any peas ever no matter what"
mircea_popescu: o yeah one did get her, i reclal this
BingoBoingo: A lot of the seasonal gulls are starting to find their way here up the Mississippi.
chetty: I have pics, somewhere - Turkey/me/leather jacket/pideon poop
mircea_popescu: actually i think it's mostly seagulls in turkey
BingoBoingo: chetty: How does turkey support pigeons with all of those cats?
chetty: pigeons in Turkey do that a lot
BingoBoingo: I qualify it that way, because I prefer not to document the exact objectionable habits of sky rats.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: For all I know the urban pigeons are eating used heroin needles, junkies hepatitis diarrhea, and random industrial and medical waste
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: why don't they call it a PoCathon << ahaha you're one step off getting your own nbc show. "the bowl is round, the mug is round, why not call it roundtine"
BingoBoingo: Squab can be delicious, but I dunno if I could make the jump to eating dirty urban pigeons
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: Vacathon! << that's when you go on a cow tipping spree all over the world.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Pigeon-feeders in Vienna to be fined 36 as part of city's crackdown on bird population << holy shit they're doing it right. fucking winged rats.
chetty: BingoBoingo, nothing wrong with cards, I used em for a very long time, still do for some stuff
pankkake: github does :/ not that I really use it but it's ugly without
BingoBoingo: chetty: What's wrong with notecards. When I finally severed my last ties to Windows (Endnote X5), I simply migrated the citations database to cards.
mircea_popescu: moiety: I have been on 0 business trips. I used to work in a hospital lol << start saving for argentina next year ? :D
pankkake: unfortunately serving custom web fonts is now all the rage
mircea_popescu: yes but there you expect it.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I'm not sure if they are the worst... Databases suck pretty bad.
mircea_popescu: lol accidentally weaponized comic sans dept. ok, gotta love that
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo, fonts. always the worst thing in any env.
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 579.5, Best ask: 582.48, Bid-ask spread: 2.98000, Last trade: 582.5, 24 hour volume: 12566.90246127, 24 hour low: 562.18, 24 hour high: 593.48, 24 hour vwap: 578.001570568
mircea_popescu: i came across a test scrap today and realized that i spelled the word "redeem" wrong on every single one <<< aaa-hahahaha. YOU NEED AN EDITOR!!1
BigBitz: nice... great food out there.
fluffypony: only through here
mircea_popescu: fluffypony, o you two know each other ?
mircea_popescu: (for the interested public :argentina has a bit of an inflation problem, officially peso is 8.58 to the dollar, most anyone will take 9, generally you get about 11 from specialised exchangers. which are of course illegal, so there's five billion of them screaming in the streets - something the argentines don't do for anything else)
fluffypony: oh sweet - mircea_popescu tell him I say hi
mircea_popescu: i wanted to drop 200 bucks o nthem, but apparently it's only for what you eat lol)
mircea_popescu: (and they make a point of writing o nthe door they take dollars at 11.5
mircea_popescu: i gotta show you this place, it is insanity.
mircea_popescu: chetty, btw, take you out for a steak ? we're meeting lospantalones at noonish
chetty: no teeth, no biting the heads off :P
mircea_popescu: obtw, speaking of steak. i had some fucking INCREDIBLE steaks these past two days. i am fucking humbled, you can not begin to imagine the steaks in this fucking town. omfg.
mircea_popescu: but if you didn't have them you wouldn't eat steak which is bad for the environment,
mircea_popescu: chetty, no cause free dentist health care. if you like your teeth you can keep your teeth,
mircea_popescu: btw, wouldn't you be affraid of a woman that keeps making supercute dough things it then BITES THE HEADS OFF ?
chetty: mircea_popescu, I am sure we will soon be at the meal in a pill stage, chewing is probably bad for you
mircea_popescu: im stil lon 23rd, checking out moiety's cookies and wondering who the fuck this xjpg guy is.
fluffypony: btw mircea_popescu did you read about the OpenRigs customer that is apparently a secret agent or have you not got to that part in the logs yet?
fluffypony: Dogecoin down to ~72 satoshis
mircea_popescu: well. "resolved" in the sense doge coin is resolved, buncha derps will be "investing" in it still because hey, they "love to invest when everyone panics" or how did that skinnkavaj line go.
assbot: EPA to give grants to fight cooking stove pollution - Washington Times
mircea_popescu: ok so that problem is finally resolved then, thankfully.