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mircea_popescu:
<cazalla> i guess you could always step a homeless guy
<< fun fact : police in timisoara started getting bonuses by total fine volume. total fine volume went up. total fine arrears went way up. city hall in hot water over it, turns out...
jurov:
<smooth> that's a good margin actualy
jurov:
<jurov> yea i spend 1.5euro/day to make 0.15 let's scale it up!
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> you can try 1,000 variants until works.
<< you can buy one and try safely.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> with machine - owner finds out, possibly weeks or months later, when he himself is prosecuted
<< there's really no prosecution. i've had fake bills in the common course of business multiple times all over. it happens.
mircea_popescu:
<jurov> til
<< this is the case in slovakia too. look around.
mircea_popescu:
<ThickAsThieves> must be a template cuz the logo sucks and doesnt match at all
<<< looks like it.
BingoBoingo:
<TheNewDeal> If I go to an atm at a casino, and I want to withdraw, where do i withdraw from?
<< Not ATM at the casino, gambling machines
mircea_popescu:
<pete_dushenski> riga is worth a visit: fine food, reasonable prices, beautiful young women, appealing architecture
<< all true.
pete_dushenski: artifexd:^ There's my bet
<< so giving to teh community, this guy
ThickAsThieves:
<+pete_dushenski> labvakar (good evening) from riga! /// they have internet there?
BingoBoingo:
<ozbot> 27.429 billion | Next Diff in 662 blocks | Estimated Change: 6.2322% in 4d 7h 20m 23s
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: Super Evil Megacorp is actually a cool name
<< foreal.
mircea_popescu: Sandra Riahi, 22, in a bikini, chimed in: "I've never done it. I'd be too embarrassed."
<<< let the sand niggers in, get fucking burkas and "embarassed" women.
BingoBoingo:
<rithm> negative ghostrider, the pattern is full.
<< Imma have to use this pattern is full business sometime
mircea_popescu: rithm 12154jcphamguruvan432014-03-07 17:10:02-5defaulted on 100 btc loan
<< that bit. you never answered, what was it ?
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol: [A comparison between Bitcoin and other assets using an intraday Value at Risk approach]
<< "
mircea_popescu: assbot: [PSA] if you are invested or gambling at dicebitco.in, please login and divest/withdraw asap! confirmed scam to players and investors : Bitcoin
<<< hey kako what is teh diff between bitbet and other brands!11
mircea_popescu: mod6: hmm. works through tor.
<< i think maybe proxy checker had a local connectivity issue
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: has any numbnut admitted fault to the btc/eur fiasco on btce last night?
<< nope.
gribble: Kleeck was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 31 weeks, 2 days, 9 hours, 59 minutes, and 12 seconds ago:
<kleeck> yeah... hilarious..?
Vexual:
<asciilifeform>does anyone still fly those 'suicide' choppers that consist of a chair and motorcycle engine ?
<Yep, over 9000 time safer than walking about in the outback
ben_vulpes:
<kakobrekla> to prospective advertisers/spammers, one can no longer buy van ad on bitbet. we are back to classic rotator.
<< toll the bell
mircea_popescu:
<justusranvier> Maybe the reason they are unhappy about bitcoin-security being public is because it reveals there's an unfixed memory leak in bitcoind right now.
<< this needed like revealing and anything
mod6:
<+mircea_popescu> so #eulora just succeeded in an infrastructure upgrade, taking crystal space from 38 something to 40 something. this is a major tech victory.
<< nice!!
mircea_popescu:
<punkman> you were gonna teach them Enigmail? Fuck you.
<<< word.
BingoBoingo: I didn’t say that, did I ?
<< Amazing how saving something makes everyone think you favor it.
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> incidentally, it is shocking, outrageous but also very amusing to see just how copy-pasted the final days us is from the peak of romania. it's almost as if instead of the romanian idiots copying teh superior us businessmen, the reverse happened.
<< i'd love to hear more about this
B007: 08-03-2014 02:09:00
<B007> mircea_popescu: you should bet 1000 on something on your site
mircea_popescu: xmj: asciilifeform: you're talking about the old dichotomy. exit or voice.
<< how the fuck are the 70s old!
mircea_popescu: jurov: ussr was definite exercise in proving eugenics futile... dunno how it could have not fallen
<< tell more ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: this is why the death of ussr is a global calamity - even folks like jurov and mircea_popescu, who saw the underside of the colonial boot, might see the argument as to how
<< i certainly do not see such.
mircea_popescu: chetty: well at least thats a respectable excuse
<< every excuse is respectable to the one guy whose respect matters you know.
mircea_popescu: xmj: they have that elaborated there too
<<, they being a lone guy who flatters himself that he's going to "continue" things he scarcely understands, from a purely theoretical perspective. because this works now, and the ample supply of tims and culwicks is somehow not self-defeating.
decimation: asciilifeform: that was the point of the blog:
http://28sherman.blogspot.com/2014/08/unified-theory-on-watergate.html << "Despite Nixon's capture of the presidency, he learned where real power lay. In Haldeman's "Ends of Power", he writes ...by 1971 Nixon had realized he was virtually powerless to deal with the bureaucracy in every department of thegovernment... Civil servants, almost all liberal Democrats, would thumb their noses at
jurov: xmj from propertarianism.com "Flourishing requires that we suppress free riding in all its forms."
<< who decides about free riding and who's gonna supress it?
jurov:
<asciilifeform> because i have no quarrel with anything in that piece - imho, entirely factual.
<< did anyone confirmed kiev started by murdering civilians?
decimation: re: hitler
< the "old right" nobility and "old republican-style" conservatives in germany gave Hitler control after his party won a minority share because they thought they could 'control him'
decimation: Re: Thiel working with usg
<< I can't imagine anyone running a 'bank' or 'bank-like' service and not being a spy for usg, it's the law yo
decimation: re: lithium batteries
<< yes the conventional solution is a spring-clip style battery holder if one can't spot-weld lead to device
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: is a fixed cost, whether or not it moves
<< this isn't true
ThickAsThieves:
<+thestringpuller> you know how I know you're not american mircea_popescu : you hate cars /// i cant stand driving and all the stuff about cars other than that they get me places
ThickAsThieves:
<+mircea_popescu> ThickAsThieves 5 before back to 8 or w/e it does ? /// i think i figured out exactly what it does actually
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform>
http://www.mekanizmalar.com/desmodromics.html << i read desdemona in there for some reason, which reminds me of a story. picture youthful mp at maly, for a staging of othello, in russian. now, bearin in mind that in romanian "zdreanta" means rag or figuratively whore, picture youthful mp hearing a very decided othello burst out "davai zdreanta, desdiemona!!1" and go into incontrollable peels of laughter
mircea_popescu: * asciilifeform has seen this said about more than one obscure natural language, it always seems to be a reflection of the linguist's ineptitude, in practice.
<< quite. it's not true of inuit languages any more it's true of russian.
ThickAsThieves:
<+TheNewDeal> ThickAsThieves any foia response? // None reported.
decimation: "Take it up with your propaganda—it's too strong"
<< all manner of misery results when people start believing their own bullshit
mircea_popescu:
<chetty> asciilifeform, forget the gasenwagen you'll get a nice little lab to build toys (with bars of course)
<< the special wagenb :D