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decimation: the other weird
thing about US vs UK english is
that
the UK pronounce foreign words ... in English
decimation: the US was so overpopulated with Germans 100 years ago
that
they shaped American English
decimation: most americans I know pronounce it
toona
mircea_popescu: so,
there's
two fucking levels of pigdinization, and only
the 2nd layer actually killed
the possibility of expression
mircea_popescu: so we went into exploration and discovered
that indeed, plain u is ju, otherwise neat u is oo
mircea_popescu: and i coulnd't make it out because obviously it's
tjuna
pankkake: L'Humanité is Pif. Front Patriotique de la Jeunesse definitively sounds like
traditional right
mircea_popescu: decimation you know i just had
this dispute with native speaker
today ? because she said "tuna" with a plain u like in cartoon
mircea_popescu: In
the 80's it merged with Éditions J becoming Éditions Vaillant-Miroir Sprint (VMS) (by
then i wasn't paying attention anymore)
decimation: asciilifeform: (19-03-2014) as always, when using a
technical pidgin like english, everybody loses something. << learning some German
taught me how dumb English is: no grammatical cases, no genders, irregular endings, irregular pronunciation
mircea_popescu: pankkake : vaillant, French publisher, founded in July 1946 by
the Front Patriotique de la Jeunesse (FPJ)
benkay: unless of course
they're
the kind of whores
that need pimping...
mircea_popescu: benkay you get
to find out if it's
the sort of competition you'd be better served working
together with.
benkay: mircea_popescu: if
they can't figure out where
the money is i don't want
to meet
them.
benkay: what, and help
the competition?
bitcoinpete: "BTC China announced via
Twitter
today
that it has suspended Chinese yuan deposits from
the Bank of China"
benkay: pretty sure i own
the only contract development shop in
the wot, but i'd be
thrilled
to meet some others.
pankkake: Pif was edited by l'Humanité,
the communist newspaper (still active).
though surpringly
there wasn't much propaganda
mircea_popescu: other
than being
the first and largest agency, ofcourse.
mircea_popescu: oh i guess you're right, it was some front populaire
thing
benkay: far as i can see
there's precisely one agency in
the WoT.
benkay: not in
the web of
trust?
mircea_popescu: pankkake nah, i had
the complete editions valliant, 1952
to 1970ish, bound in yearly
tomes
pankkake: I'm probably
too young for it. I haven't read much Pif either
pankkake: meuf would be
the more common / younger saying
mircea_popescu: btw, am i
the only one
to remember mlouf,
the foot-face
thing ?
pankkake: the year after, you had
to register
to be allowed in :D
pankkake: IIRC
there was only one girl :(
pankkake: apparently
the
tab was a few
thousands
pankkake: I remember
the day I got free drinks
thanks
to GitHub. Gave
the
tip
to a bunch of people, most of
them didn't even know what GitHub was
mircea_popescu: people buy
the whole bar rounds when
they have no good story
to
tell / no good
toast
to make all
the damned
time.
mircea_popescu: pankkake clearly you don't understand
the party culture.
pankkake: yet
they spent money on conference promo when
they have nothing
to show
mircea_popescu: specifically,
the 1px
thin lower border resulting from some real clever monkey in
the photo chop seat.
bitcoinpete: and 000 shared a girl with a canadian
tuxedo
mircea_popescu: "bitpay, premier non redundant birtcoin service, powered by
triple 000 media" says
that wall.
mircea_popescu: the risk of paying for walls : you may end up associated with
the hobo pissing on
them
mircea_popescu: in george's words, "bear in mind we at least paid
to spraypaint a crackwhore!"
kakobrekla: on
the bright side, it was off by just a 1000.
fluffypony: pankkake, when we had our Bitcoin Black Friday special
their API was unavailable
mircea_popescu: here i sit crushing my and every expert's brain as
to why
the fucking hell of fuck does bitbet aff not
take off
pankkake: I just wanted
to know what was
the purchase link I created a while back, I don't use
the API
pankkake: I hope it's not on
the same servers :D
mircea_popescu: suppose im a merchant
that just sold 10k btc worth of fresh salmon, am i fucked nao ?
bitcoinpete: keeping
the door open is more cost-effective
than fisa, etc
pankkake: and of course I discover it because…
the page isn't responding
pankkake: I really need a firefox addon
to display a red cloudflare warning…
ozbot: Twitter / ErikVoorhees: Spent over 40 minutes on
the ...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform:
tesla's apparatus was briefcase-sized. and, according
to rumour,
the experiment has been replicated since. but,
to no one's great surprise,
the data in open literature is very scarce. <<
thatthing's like
the water engine imo.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: it has minimum of 8.0 Mw.
that would be impressive if manmade. << impressive ? if an 8.0 earthquake were man made i doubt we'd still have computers left
tobitch about
things.
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: unfortunately not, was off-the-cuff, but mostly just reiterated stuff I've mentioned in here before and did lots of marketing-droid-speak about
The importance Of Adoption (tm)
mircea_popescu: fluffypony congrats on media whoring. can you offer
text summary for
the audio patience challenged ?
blueocean: i just realized i've been using lol
too much over
the last few years. i apologize
blueocean: thank you mp,
that was nice of you
BingoBoingo: It also matter
that reduncancy is better
than
the lack
thereof. Y is more vulnerable in both aspects.
mircea_popescu: in
things such as surviving a dose of xrays, it's counterintuitively your length more
than your area
that matters at subcellular level
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I dunno about physical size, but
the Y contains much less encoding and information.
mircea_popescu: “Alibaba is
the fastest-growing Internet company in one of
the fastest-growing economies in
the world,” said Sameet Sinha
chetty decides
to leave it at
that
mircea_popescu: because
the male chromosome sucks and is larger and derpier
chetty: now why would male making sperm
tend
to be weaker? its an interesting question ..
mircea_popescu: this, because cosmic rays kill
the weaker male making sperm
mircea_popescu: it's well known
that airplane pilots
tend
to father girls
mircea_popescu: it further hurts later conceptions because of
the inside
the womb radiation
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
to a large degree, it hurts
the fetuses, not
the kids-to-be-born later