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pete_dushenski: can anyone confirm this once-a-year paving schedule ? because fuck me am i getting tired of the washboard frost heaves in this frozen backwater.
pete_dushenski: orer because of all the overloaded trucks tearing up the roads. But generally the highways get re-paved at least once-a-year, to both stimulate the construction-based economy here but also to keep the workers employed."
pete_dushenski: in still other azn insights : "The quality of the highways are actually fantastic - in the old-days before we had proving grounds built in China we used to do high-speed testing on the newly-built highways before they were opened to public, and they were smooth as can be even at 120mph +. I would say the quality of the roads in the South are a little better, and industrial Provinces like Jinan a little po
pete_dushenski: this, ladies and gents, is the cream of the auto journo crop. it's hard to believe that he's as accomplished a driver and writer as he is while maintaining these aforequoted pretenses. but what can i say, i have a soft spot for the guy.
pete_dushenski: Neither Pete nor I will live to see a world in which the United States is not a major player in international affairs, if not the major player. Go ahead and bet on that.
pete_dushenski: Bitcoin but just like the goldbugs and the silver hoarders he rarely looks very hard at the way that real people use money in the real world. The average sub-130 IQ person looks at Bitcoin as a technology indistinguishable from magic, assuming that it’s that kind of magic where people periodically compromise the blockchain and steal money. Believe me when I tell you that we will all go back to biting c ☟︎
pete_dushenski: Now it’s China’s turn to attempt to prove that their centrally-managed currency can do it. They’re going to fail because nobody trusts China and nobody ever will. The business community knows that the Wall Street game is rigged but it’s rigged in a way that they trust. Nor will Bitcoin ever be more than a plaything for people on the fringes of the financial world. Pete’s very knowledgeable about ☟︎
pete_dushenski: let's dump a bit of ol' jack baruth in the logs, just ftr :
pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-01#1474673 << so it is. twas a popular little hobby back in 2010-2013, though i know of no one who took it beyond that and up to the business level. ☝︎
pete_dushenski: obviously, it doesn't create a proper tx, but trb doesn't know this and so effectively locks the coins from being spent.
shinohai: Implying I have a Bitcoin balance.
pete_dushenski: speaking of which, anyone ever tried to send full 'account balance' from trb node when it was clearly a bullshit number ?
a111: Logged on 2016-06-03 16:42 asciilifeform: i've never actually met an adult who had the experience and wasn't a traumatic wreck.
asciilifeform: 'Extract-key-from-key is defined in section 6.27.7 of PKCS#11 standard version 2.30. It may as well have been renamed “extract-substring” as the analog of standard operation on strings. This derivation scheme creates a new key by taking a contiguous sequence of bits at desired offset and length from an existing key.' << holy FUCK
spandrell: an average salary for a 35 year old man in tokyo would be USD50k year
asciilifeform: or 1/2 a flat in washington dc.
asciilifeform: 400k buys you a flat in moscow. ☟︎
trinque: what's the rent on a place with the bathtub robot
asciilifeform: and what does 'kitchen' mean in a 1-room closet flat anyway
spandrell_: it has a mike too so you can call your wife from the bathtub to ask for a beer
spandrell_: and once it's done you get a girl voice saying "sir your bath is ready"
spandrell_: press a button
mircea_popescu: meanwhile irl, islam is about him dieing with a fucking explosive towel wrapped around his head, as a 37 yo virgin.
mircea_popescu: so, dickless beta whiteboy figures "islam" is "all about making all men equal", so he'll get a wife from allah.
spandrell_: got a ukrainian pal which is fond of sending me pictures of the russian countryside
mircea_popescu: hahaha this is a rather... distant view.
spandrell_: got a coworker who had a kid too and stayed
mod6: mass-a-two-shits
asciilifeform: china is sorta like a man who eats poisoned fish and dies of same
asciilifeform: but i'm a monster.
asciilifeform: ended up in usa by stroke of misfortune as a boy though.
asciilifeform: but occasionally i return for a helping of lulz
asciilifeform: to save a penny.
asciilifeform suffered the company of american ph.d. folk for many years, for a living
spandrell_: this egyptian was a damn PhD
spandrell_: egyptian talked about soccer a lot
spandrell_: a lame book they might have read while on the commute
mircea_popescu: especially from a distance.
spandrell_: laughed a lot
spandrell_: the woman was were a full black burka
mircea_popescu: the secret story of iran being that a large not-really-arab community is being oppressed by a buncha arabs.
spandrell_: i didnt have the confidence to go seek a hooker in casablanca, honestly
mircea_popescu: ah, well... distress immigration is never a good measure, my good man.
asciilifeform went on a relatively brief kick of (written) arabic
mircea_popescu: spandrell_ you think english is a better culture language than arabic ?!
mircea_popescu: i guess i am hostile enough, so maybe not a good example.
spandrell_: my thing! i'm the guy saying islam might be a good idea
spandrell_: but you cant write a book saying that arabs are dumb
mircea_popescu: depends how much money you have, i guess. but yes, publishing for a living is, definitionally, being a bureaucracy hanger-on.
mircea_popescu: i find it hard to believe anyone gives a shit, but anyway.
spandrell_: and indeed the book started a fever of books on how being shameless and evil helps you with chicks too
mircea_popescu: spandrell_ looky : the publishing thing works (marginally) if you get book deals. from macmillan or whoever the fuck still does it. they pay you a few thousand, kinda measly, and maybe royalties but not really.
spandrell_: publishes an article on a local newspaper
mircea_popescu: what's a "dark triad psychopath"
mircea_popescu: he was rescue-married like a little bitch and there he goes, raising some woman's children, and no doubt pleasing her.
mircea_popescu: so, too lazy to stick with law ; had "high traffic" website, which he parlayed into a coupla books which i suppose sold a coupla thousand copies, or w/e enough to pay rent for a coupla years. and then...
spandrell_: he did sell a damn lot of books tho
mircea_popescu: you know a funny derp by the name tucker max ?
spandrell_: 5k are nice, but it's not like i can write a book every month
mircea_popescu: but think about it! what sad sort of bro culture is this where you put as much work into the book as a reader into the reading!
spandrell_: that a page of a book should take more than an hour?
spandrell_: whats a) supposed to mean
spandrell_: well my blog has a decent readership, i don't think 1,000 is farfetched
trinque recalls a chick in portland that had an etsy shop for cat bowties
mircea_popescu: a) sub hour per page is hardly a book is it ; b) minimum wage is still minimum wage ; c) you've ever sold 1000 anything before ?
spandrell_: if i spend, say, 100 hours writing a book
mircea_popescu: finished with a useless degree, and is now trying to ... sell things on etsy.
mircea_popescu: you DON'T have a book deal ?
mircea_popescu: hardly worth a man's time.
mircea_popescu: you'll get what, 30 to 50 cents a copy. most of what you see will be the advance, which is what by now, a grand ?
mircea_popescu: seems a silly plan.
mircea_popescu: make a pgp wouldja.
spandrell: i wrote a post about that too
mircea_popescu: children today are a marginal cost.
mircea_popescu: it's not a "for me". i said it in the general.
mircea_popescu: so it's not a "there you go".
mircea_popescu: it's an option though. i could, if i were so inclined. i'm not, but that's a societal failure.
spandrell: need to play ball to get a job
spandrell: sometimes mom is a bitch
mircea_popescu: you just object to the notion some people might not give a shit what women think ?
spandrell: i'm not a faithful man
mircea_popescu: well, especially all the sometimes you've decided not to have a choice.
mircea_popescu: because it's what children do, try t oplease a woman.
spandrell: life's complicated, sometimes you dont have a choice
mircea_popescu: so ridiculous, "i'm a colonel at nsa" "nice, i'm a regatta rear admiral!"
spandrell: see, he's a good example of a qin ming kind of guy
asciilifeform: he is iirc a colonel there
mircea_popescu: a
spandrell: we do talk a lot
spandrell: then a bunch of single young dudes
spandrell: you're doing your thing as a military officer
spandrell: or lu junyi, who gets fucked in a similar way
mircea_popescu: the debates as to genetic basis for intelligence have raged for a while in the logs. it's not really settled i guess, but there's certainly no merit for NATIONAL concepts of intelligence hm ?
spandrell: i obviously understand why nobody with a 90+ IQ would hang out with arabs
spandrell: i wasnt really that serious but i do understand i struck a nerve
mircea_popescu: check it out asciilifeform the 1300s chinese novel even has the "bitcoin corrupts" doctrine. "obviously he was a bro, and all bros of the world should join the rebel army".
spandrell: i actually started to study japanese because i found a bitch on IRC who taught me
spandrell: i used to be a lot in irc
mircea_popescu: there's a huge pile of interlocking wonders that make up la serenissima, i'll be more than happy to explain them in detail as time goes by.
spandrell: just a lazy connaiseur of good IT practice