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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i understand, the chinese 'wot' is their... genealogical tree. and i'm not certain that they'd see out wot as other than noise even were they to get out of that stage. (and why ought they)
<<< this seems akin to saying poles are stupid, to me.
mircea_popescu: be it. We will look for alternatives, however."
<< there's definitely some substance to that.
mircea_popescu: jdanks> (: I love chickens, they are pretty hilarious to watch sometimes. They do create drama for themselves haha
<< now this is true.
mircea_popescu:
<BingoBoingo> Still better than risperidone which makes me produce dairy like a moo cow while trembling liek micheal J fox.
<< wait you actually were speaking out of experience ?!
BingoBoingo:
<jdanks> I still have this 10 lb. beet in the fridge I grew that I needa juice with maybe some carrots and apple.
<< We get sweet potatoes like that
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> which is unclear who'd be. vesseneess is an asshole i wouldn't take the word of anyway, and nobody else is in charge there.
<< Prime case where I get 30x on my money but fear how the niggers spin it.
mircea_popescu:
<BingoBoingo> The problem is the foundation is as solid as coco butter
<< quite.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> don't forget the machines and their vendors. various parts with high-threes or low-fours 'MTBF', periodic mandatory maintenance, etc. - churn inventory.
<<< would seem to contradict asciilifeform> u.s. presidential car is an infamous laughing-stock - broke down recently in england (?) and they had one hell of a time finding a shop that would attempt repair
mircea_popescu:
<decimation> and even though the president has very little personal authority his underlings are more than happy to throw this security party because they each get a part
<< quite.
mthreat:
<mircea_popescu> mthreat how did the exclusion clauses work in search agai ? // the minus sign excludes terms, e.g. wheat -chaff
decimation: re: sabu/fbi irc chat
<< fyi, if you are a 'hacker' and someone tells you that they can 'hack NATO', you are being played
lobbes: "As they watched the bonfire die down, they asked the DEA officials to estimate the value of the marijuana they had just burned. The reply: half a million dollars. The farmers had to laugh. The value of the corn that had been cut down to grow it? $32"
<< heh, I wonder how many farmers just keep the plants
decimation: asciilifeform: "server logs"
<< these are from the
http referer headers?
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: 'Вместо статуй будут урны - Революции культурной.' -- vysotsky's song about chicoms
<<< dja haet chinese ppls or merely suspicious of anyone with slanty eyes ?
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> china is imho the one likely candidate for the feat of having own isolated wot and 'getting away with it' long term.
<< nah, argentina in much better position.
xanthyos: 29-08-2014 02:21:27
<BingoBoingo>
<mircea_popescu> what's this fresh danielpbarron drama BigBitz ?
<< My best impression is he is trying to WoT up a bunch of local acquaintances and... old tensions and dramas come forth, but I lack context to interpret severity...
<< it's a good test case for the aphorism "familiarity breeds contempt" when wot ratings are inversely proportional to how well someone is known
jurov: proof of action
<< devcoin does that, no?
mircea_popescu:
<cazalla> i had one for indian candy but she never came back
<<< wait for monsoon season ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Hearn being all butthurt
<< yeah it'd prolly be good if whoever links to derpchans (-otc, -dev, reddit, tardstalk, what have you) also provides a good executive summary. i dunno who has the energy to go on fishing expeditions in the sewage.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic: "Security exploits: 0.1 BTC" // this is plainly ridiculous
<< i lolled :D
mircea_popescu: hanbot: "A family of four should be able to survive for a month on a six-roll pack, priced at 460 yen ($4.40) and with a five-year expiration date, said Satoshi Kurosaki"
<<< i guess they don't do the entire tping the house of people they don't like in japan.
mircea_popescu: dignork: openbazaar published alpha tests of their platform. Looks interesting on paper. Shows seller gpg private key in raw contract, on the buyer side. Facepalm^2
<<< such great things come out of "the community".
mircea_popescu: "I am certainly up for spending a few hundred dollars here"
<< we got called trolls by a guy whose budget is three whole figures :D
gribble: colinistheman was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 7 weeks, 5 days, 0 hours, 21 minutes, and 23 seconds ago:
<colinistheman> if I feel adventurous in setting up all this stuff later I'll be back. g'day!
mircea_popescu:
<ben_vulpes> ^^ race conditions?
<< looks like two separate bets
ben_vulpes:
<BingoBoingo> "Easy to handle" compared to what? Cocaine-soaked cobras?
<< "crater bait"
nubbins`: punkman:labor day? that's in fucking may
<< what? it's today
Vexual: f. Rewarded Hackers will be notified via email.
<this is all backwards
Vexual: b. If a loophole/vulnerability was reported by more than one person, we would only consider the earliest one to be eligible.
<<define report
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: Trying dig through the wot for some practice
<< not such a bad idea.
thestringpuller: 5735e854f041ecff815fc205addb73a183b7f2fd27eb16affae41896c25f6b99
<< txid
nubbins`:
<lelbot> your lel balance is currently zero, please try having a lel
mircea_popescu: chetty: asciilifeform, first time I heard that one, great!!!
<< and here i thought everyone knew that one.
mircea_popescu: From this tale, three morals: not he is your enemy who plants you down in shit;
<< if only they taught this, whip in hand, in us schools.
chetty:
<asciilifeform> 'before x, y' is a professional disease of engineering types. might as well fault a sailor for walking bow-legged on land.// +++++++++
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: people have asked me why haven't escaped, and i answer 'i haven't $xx mil.' to which, eyes bug out, and i have to explain 'a real escape means retrieval is not simply legally, but militarily uneconomical.'
<< let me tell you a story.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: plus it isn't clear that paying the 'legit' fees gets you anything in the long run. who's gonna force usg to honour the cancellations when they decide not to? the devil ?
<< this is the most germane point. i'd rather pay power Y to cancel my citizenship with power X than power X itself.
nubbins`:
<+ben_vulpes> nubbins` actually inspired me on the topic, although he still does the numismatic thing
<< gotta keep the shinies in circulation
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud: ben_vulpes: low leverage on real estate bought at a value has done well in every crash in the US, including the 1930s depression era
<<< how about twelve oaks ? how well did outright owned property fare in the face of the carpetbagger ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: creating noise
<< here's some noise for you : borrow as much as you can, to buy consumer items, then liquidate everything for cash, buy bitcoins and a plane ticket. wish everyone left behind good luck on your way out, what's an extra 100k they have to pay on your account on top of the 2 trn they have to pay for on bush's account and the 9 to 15 on obama's ?
mircea_popescu: *: ben_vulpes puts the fiat assets in lady v's name
<< you plan on leaving her behind or something ?
mircea_popescu: assbot: U.S. Hikes Fee To Renounce Citizenship By 422% - Forbes
<< color me the transparent color of surprise.
mircea_popescu: jurov: asciilifeform re:orlov it's similar as russian police completely ignoring tortures of gays...if they aren't complicit actively, then it isn't massacre?
<< this theory is appealing unless one stops to consider they were by this token complicit in the murder of whoever many million "tutsi"s whatever the fuck that may be, happening wherever the fuck that may have happened at some point nobody cared about.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: more like an unkempt bush than any sort of a hedge. * ben_vulpes goes off to come naturally
<< irl lol.
jurov:
<= 5 eurocents are copper plated steel
chetty:
<asciilifeform> gernika: bad question. see earlier discussion of 'usable' machines. no such thing as 'good place' any more than 'usable interface.'//+++
chetty:
<xmj> well mostly the jewish citizens, and the tax was almost 100%.// this isnt even the taxes (thats more) this is just a processing fee
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: state of the art is probably (cloth-based) paper under inert gas.
<< Seems to be the case. Ink is another concern as well.
ben_vulpes:
<The20YearIRCloud> And it's hard to judge when that will be, otherwise I do believe our model hedges well against USD collapse, and any major problems
<< good old belief in the hedge.
mircea_popescu:
<xmj> To me, science comes naturally.
<< know anyone who actually is of this opinion ?
mircea_popescu: decimation: yeah that's a good point. I think the money is less important than the relative status, which is less important than just getting people to defer to their betters quickly
<< no, not quickly. painfully.
mircea_popescu: decimation: it is probably terrible to become an object of some fad among elites today
<< you know, i'm a poststructuralist jus' fine.
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud: i've been off reading physics articles trying to grasp things and lost the conversation
<< should probably be the motto of b-a