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mike_c: oh no. that's a lot of globals..
ThickAsThieves: i'm too ignorant to know what this means
asciilifeform: this being the 'reference client'
asciilifeform: and always at 0x48bd21, too.
asciilifeform: third time in the past year or so.
bones`: no more drakula? I was enjoying that
ThickAsThieves: Lawsky wants to do an AMA https://twitter.com/BenLawsky/status/435244370510749698
asciilifeform: e.g. modern russia fields a ballistic missile titled 'voevod.' can you picture naming a rocket 'governor' ?
asciilifeform: chetty: literally, 'he who leads us into battle.' the modern english word 'governor' has rather different connotations.
mike_c: i guess people either don't think JD is correct, or are just deliberately giving their money away. this guy is firing off 100 bets per minute. i mean, that is just the astoundingly worst way to bet possible.
moiety: chetty: so, drakula the big chief?!
asciilifeform: (for the uninitiated: not to be confused with the fictional 19th c. undead fellow.)
asciilifeform: (prince? warlord? воевод doesn't translate well.)
asciilifeform: 1486. "Сказание о Дракуле-воеводе." (tale of drakula, the chieftain.) ☟︎
asciilifeform: moiety: might wanna look for a respectable translation of the whole manuscript.
moiety: asciilifeform: i'm going to collect it all together
deadweasel: ;;later tell mircea_popescu no no, I just enjoyed their hometown cuisine with sake, nothing more. hometown cuisine is not a euphemism.
jurov: but she decided to slaughter young girls instead
jurov: and then gets invited to buda by king. poor lady bathory should have known better.
asciilifeform: nd the alms-seekers did burn. and spoke drakula to his nobles thusly, 'do you know why i did this? firstly, let them no more pester people, and let there be no more beggars in my lands, and all shall be wealthy; secondly, i have set them free; let them suffer no more upon this earth from poverty or illness.'
asciilifeform: hen came to them in person, and asked 'what more do you wish?' they answered thusly: 'it is known only to god, lord, and to you: do that which god commands you.' he asked further of them: 'do you wish me to make you happy in this world, wanting for nothing?' they, awaiting from him great generosity, replied in unison, 'yes, we do want, our lord!' and then drakula ordered the house sealed and put to the torch, a
asciilifeform: try this one on for size then. 'once drakula proclaimed: let it be known throughout all of his lands, that all who are old, or invalid, or diseased, or poor, shall come to him. and so came to him an untold multitude of beggars and vagabonds, awaiting generous alms. he ordered them all brought to a house for this purpose built, and had food and wine brought to them. they feasted amidst great merriment. drakula t ☟︎
jurov: i'd say marvelled is just a bad translation
asciilifeform: ke a rogue, storms into the home of a great lord. had he come to me and spoke reason, i would have found the rogue in my home and either given him up, or asked for his reprieve.' the king was told of this. and he laughed, and marvelled at drakula's approach.'
asciilifeform: ht the rogue - and released the rogue. the other constables took flight, and, when they came to the judge, spoke to him of this. the judge and his horsemen went to the king with complaint of drakula. the king a messenger to drakula, to ask, 'why have you wrought this evil?' he replies thusly, 'no evil have i wrought, but the constable has slaine himself with his own hand: such shall be the demise of any who, li
asciilifeform: 'when the king freed [exiled] drakula from the dungeon, he lead him to buda, and gifted to him a house in pest, opposite buda, but to his court not yet permitted him. and then it happened that some fleeing rogue ran into drakula's manor and took refuge there. the pursuers sought the rogue there and found him. then drakula lept up, snatched his sword, ran from his quarters and beheaded the constable who had caug
jurov: sigh, what did the world come to
moiety: who is failcoin on twitter?
moiety: either waym they just look like kanyedoms
moiety: as in everything new york gets NYXX treatment. this is a very bad play on that?
moiety: is this an extremely poor pr tack??
ThickAsThieves: and why the Y?
ThickAsThieves: why is the Kyng size smaller looking?
mircea_popescu: now that's a good saying.
kakobrekla: the balkans produce more history than they can consume
moiety: it's a real shame there just now too
kakobrekla: well the problem there was war and they were locked in there
moiety: i would prefer that to rotting in the ground
mircea_popescu: Sarajevo (Cyrillic: Сарајево; pronounced [sǎrajɛʋɔ]) is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with an estimated population of 291,422
kakobrekla: anyway the problem is that people dont want to burn bodies to ashes
kakobrekla: sarajevo had the same problem
moiety: lol you have to book your spot here in advance, theres so little space
mircea_popescu: wow, apparently other people had this filled cemeteries problem too!
moiety: i love that washington post uses wordpress
davout: so they were originally quarries, and a part of them was used to put bones away when paris cemetaries were getting filled up
moiety: lolol yep, good job mircea, now im thinking on the person that locks the chains *scared*
ozbot: Bitcoin’s largest exchange is dying. Here’s why that’s not a problem for Bitcoin.
davout: mircea_popescu: exactly, ty
ThickAsThieves: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/15/bitcoins-largest-exchange-is-dying-heres-why-thats-not-a-problem-for-bitcoin/ <<< if anyone is in the mood to laugh at current WP commenter ignorance
davout: the catacombs in paris aren't really filled with bones and stuff tho, they were originally places where people would get rocks from, don't know the word in english for it
mircea_popescu: moiety chained nude somewhere in the depts of it, where nobody ever goes.
moiety: so many things to see in this world, i want eyes on legs
moiety: i really want to but i think i would get creeped at the entrance on my own davout! lol
davout: moiety: yeah, if you ever go there go with someone who knows
moiety: apparently you can get lost in the catacombes
moiety: might seem a strange question, but is there a smell to these places? i would imagine there would be
moiety: i think i was mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: moiety you sure you weren't thinking of the actual catacombes de paris ?
moiety: have any of you ever visited any of them?
moiety: quite impressive how neatly they can be stacked
moiety: my gosh there is loads of these places
gribble: Skull Chapel, Czermna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_Chapel,_Czermna>; Czermna, Lesser Poland Voivodeship - Wikipedia, the free ...: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czermna,_Lesser_Poland_Voivodeship>; Kaplica Czaszek: The Chapel of Skulls | Atlas Obscura: <http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kaplica-czazek-chapel-skulls>
mircea_popescu: and for that matter,
moiety: it's the catacombs im thinking of
moiety: yes! thats the one!
kakobrekla: >and due to French unpreparedness, the fort was easily captured by a small German raiding party.
kakobrekla: >The construction work for Fort de Douaumont started in 1885 and the fort was continually reinforced until 1913.
gribble: Douaumont - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douaumont>; Fort Douaumont - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Douaumont>; Douaumont ossuary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douaumont_ossuary>
moiety: this reminds me of the place in paris
gribble: Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini - Wikipedia, the free ...: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_della_Concezione_dei_Cappuccini>; Santa Maria della Concezione Crypts | Atlas Obscura: <http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/santa-maria-della-concezione>; Santa Maria della Concezione - TripAdvisor: <http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g187791-d246183 (1 more message)
moiety: are osuaries those places with the wee slots for peoples remains?
mircea_popescu: i didn't say you'd want to, just that people do.
mircea_popescu: pretty much all xtian monasteries did this.
kakobrekla: why would you want to look up after rome!?
mircea_popescu: how do you think they got THOSE bones ?
mircea_popescu: for that matter, visit rome. they have osuaries.
kakobrekla: burn to ashes
mircea_popescu: you want the entire country to be a cemetery or something ?
mircea_popescu: moiety who, they ?
kakobrekla: yes its logical when you need some space, first thing it to come to mind - poke dead people
moiety: mircea_popescu: but don't they go looking ofr the missing (buried) person?
moiety: you know, there is a park where i usually bury my small pets... im thinking others have probably been uncovered and i just havent seen it...
mircea_popescu: take the bones out, bury someone else.
mircea_popescu: it's actually useful in places where you need to reuse the ground
ThickAsThieves: however long til the bones are no longer drunk
mircea_popescu: i think the next is 42 or 49 or somesuch
moiety: k, thx
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla well it's done in the east (moldavia), where the retarded romanians live.
moiety: only the first 7 mircea_popescu ?
kakobrekla: i didnt know romanians do that shit, its retarded.
ThickAsThieves: thats one of the excuses i give myself for betting
kakobrekla: you know that already.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla wow that's true... bitbet can lock oyur dough for X time np./
kakobrekla: Willdude123 its possible to make a tx in such way it will be valid after n time, or just use bitbet.
mircea_popescu: so maybe next time ask the internets before devirginizing.
moiety: oh lol not a single thing aside from not having any other option
mircea_popescu: what made you think you're a qualified undertaker.
mircea_popescu: moiety but it was the first time you did it right ?
kakobrekla: clean the bones up
kakobrekla: in some cultures that i didnt bother to remember, they un-bury the dead every few years