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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a fitting punishment for they who refused to acknowledge doom.
assbot: Voicing TomServo for 30 minutes.
asciilifeform: !up TomServo
gribble: Forth (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)>; Forth - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary: <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forth>; Forth Interest Group Home Page: <http://www.forth.org/>
asciilifeform: i found my first book on 'forth' there
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 514.0, Best ask: 517.0, Bid-ask spread: 3.00000, Last trade: 517.26, 24 hour volume: 33656.62801655, 24 hour low: 453.16, 24 hour high: 528.75, 24 hour vwap: 492.41993782
asciilifeform: most of the good stuff was picked off
asciilifeform: TestingUnoDosTre: in the end, the creditors confiscated the shelves, and there were gigantic mountains of book
TestingUnoDosTre: asciilifeform - there was a book burning or what the hell happened?
asciilifeform: (plenty of 'mir publishing co.' maths in english, too)
nubbins`: if you'll excuse me, my wife needs to be bothered
asciilifeform: when the famous Kamkin bookstore (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Kamkin_Bookstore) imploded, they sold things by the pound, and opened up all of the 'backstage' rooms to customers. in one, i found... a '40s vintage printing press.
TestingUnoDosTre: don't know if that's what the actual name for the process is
TestingUnoDosTre: Oh it appears so. My friend's sister has an old school platten printing machine that looks like it's from the 19th century
TestingUnoDosTre: science be damned, that's an interesting process
nubbins`: we use cotton rag paper for good posters. these are cheapies for taping to poles.
TestingUnoDosTre: what do you print them with?
mircea_popescu: i'd guess easily 1mn pairs of eyeballs. total cost ? like $5
nubbins`: for reference, that paper was this color when it went up: http://i.imgur.com/yyFnfS1.jpg
asciilifeform: for a 'deserving' client, perhaps print with ink which fades out to reveal 'secret' message.
TestingUnoDosTre: what did the poster read
nubbins`: so i went out to have a drink earlier, stumbled across a poster we printed last november, still stuck to a pole
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well i was supposed to describe ME not her.
BingoBoingo: Sure, just less than in bad collapse
asciilifeform: plenty of ways to lose a head in 'good' collapse.
BingoBoingo: This goes to the Orlov, the USSR was set up be not collapse as painfully as the thing could have otherwise.
BingoBoingo: Eh, if bad collapse happens the teaparty factions are just as likely to be oppresive and appropriate your crops as the gobmint factions
BingoBoingo: dub: Well they probably didn't have to deploy "their" gunships, just their pilots
asciilifeform: point, if i understood, was to keep it 0.
dub: my guess: 0 times
dub: how many times has the national guard deployed a gunship in the history of gunships
asciilifeform: soviet ministry of internal affairs had tanks, choppers.
dub: grab the turkey cletus we headin for the shelter
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: To be fair this wasn't a Flag officer, but Flag enlisted
asciilifeform: let's see what the american number is.
asciilifeform: russia found what the number was (~6 mo. delay of pay, approx.)
asciilifeform: there's a magic number, somewhere down there, where soldiers start selling ammo, other materiel, whole vehicles - to the enemy
asciilifeform: 'His Marines could care less, he said, because they just "want to know into whose neck do we put a boot next."'
ThickAsThieves: that seems hard to believe
ThickAsThieves: i linked yesterday with the caption: blowstamps
ThickAsThieves: first bj on a stamp is two men
ThickAsThieves: her three words basically read: I'm horny.
ThickAsThieves: hey isnt that the shark tank lady youre fukn with mp?
TestingUnoDosTre: and then there's this http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-27031180
TestingUnoDosTre: best youtube comment I've read in while "If this was reddit, it would be r/gore"
BingoBoingo: TestingUnoDosTre: I'm from the general region, just a more rural part
mircea_popescu: apparently everyone is better at finding shit people than you.
TestingUnoDosTre: how do you find this shit
BingoBoingo: Carl Officer has a rich history of creating the lulz
TestingUnoDosTre: pretty sure half the people who post on there are just trying to get bets to the other side
TestingUnoDosTre: and he had to make a SuperPac that was called Dems and Independents for Rauner, because he figured that those groups wouldnt want to contribute to a fund called "citizens for Rauner"
mircea_popescu: the anon experts are a very valuable signal, turns out.
mircea_popescu: after wallowing in the 400s for weeks.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin goes blazing past 525, about twelve hours later.
mircea_popescu: "Well the answer is the IRS is extremely strict about property taxes and nobody in the United States is going to want to use Bitcoin after a 20% tax on it. That combined with Bitcoin rumors about China banning it means we won't see $525." << anon expert, april 15th around noon.
BingoBoingo: Basically longtime former democratic East StL mayor is now supporting the Repube candidate for governor.
BingoBoingo: No need to tor
mircea_popescu: "Please log in to access this feature."
TestingUnoDosTre: for bitcoincharts, thats 6 hours prior, in displayed data
benkay: off to an 'internet of things' aka networked and api-ified sensor get together. perhaps i'll find some new clients there tonight...
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic afaik gribble takes its numbers from it
Apocalyptic: isn't it run by thermos or something anyway ?
mike_c: hm, but if i am reading it right they are 8 hours old on their data?
mike_c: remember that thing about how you closed options because no one could be relied on for good data?
mircea_popescu: not even close to 520.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile bitcoincharts disagrees : <gribble> Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 516.0, Best ask: 517.99, Bid-ask spread: 1.99000, Last trade: 518.0, 24 hour volume: 33065.44812123, 24 hour low: 453.16, 24 hour high: 528.75, 24 hour vwap: 491.745388954
mircea_popescu: so this is fucking weird. gribble says 24 hour high 528
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 516.0, Best ask: 517.99, Bid-ask spread: 1.99000, Last trade: 518.0, 24 hour volume: 33065.44812123, 24 hour low: 453.16, 24 hour high: 528.75, 24 hour vwap: 491.745388954
mircea_popescu: mike_c i liked title too.
mircea_popescu: benkay she claims bs on tv, buncha overweight wwu students believe her start flailing arms and making wild claims.
mike_c: kakobrekla is probably bored and could implement those features in assbot. i liked <title> searches.
TestingUnoDosTre: gribble quit lowballin the hashrate your whore
mircea_popescu: right in the pink eye!
mod6: someone said "new meaning to red-eye flight"
mircea_popescu: mod6 because nobody could have imagined that the terrorists would use a plane as a dildo.
TestingUnoDosTre: I would like to purchase a 3d printing maching, but I want YOU to buy it!
mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre is this the #bitcoin-assets based reality tv show ?
mod6: twitter had a melt down yesterday because some girl had a toy plane in her snatch
TestingUnoDosTre: ooooh I would pay so much to see MP on shark tank
mircea_popescu: just ask them why they look so fat unexpectedly.
mod6: haha, true
mircea_popescu: anyway, twitter is the best trolling venue imaginable. there's droves of hipsters, aging attention whores, all taking it supar seriously
pankkake: this is why I don't take anyone seriously when they say that word
mike_c: she's a regular on shark tank
mircea_popescu: billy mays with tits and botulin
mircea_popescu: yeah, basically, she's the bubbliest 44yo on some us based shopping channel
BingoBoingo: It's amazing how many times the simple elastic band and the step stool can be patented
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic chick's worth some money, has this sort-of workout videos empire
Apocalyptic: reminds me of the 12,000+ domain names guy
mircea_popescu: da fuck is with all the prissy wallflowers claiming "passion"
TestingUnoDosTre: where do you find these people?
mircea_popescu: "Their mascot is the Viking."
Apocalyptic: is this any news ?
mircea_popescu: “In the decades ahead, should we be as white as we are today, we will be relentlessly driven toward mediocrity; or, become a sad shadow of our current self,” Mr. Shepard said in a recent blog post
Apocalyptic: "Complaints from the U.S. are going to increasingly fall on deaf ears"
TestingUnoDosTre: wan't that already posted?
mircea_popescu: we were just talkin'...
ThickAsThieves: so there.
ThickAsThieves: it's more likely than if they weren't hashing at all, right?
mike_c: unless what thestringpuller said.