mircea_popescu: in other lulz : so us rail gauge is 1435 mm. why ? because the first us rail was built by english immigrants, who kept to the english style. but why was the english style 1435 mm ? because rail started as (horse drawn) trams, and that was the gauge they used. but why ? because when they made trams they just used the old horse carriage gauge, by reusing the same tools. but why did carriages use 1435 mm gauge ? because if they
☟︎ mircea_popescu: used anything there was a significant chance to break a wheel in the road, as all the trails were built by 1435 mm wheels. but why were they ? because when the romans originally landed, they used 1435 mm wide wheelbases, which they had originally specified because it is what two average horses asses cover.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the item goes on to point out that since SRBs had to go on rail which went through a tunnel, notwithstanding space shuttle engineers wanted wider boosters originally, the specs of the space shuttle was established millenia prior by the size of a horse's ass.
mircea_popescu: notrly. possibly the gensets they bought back when they were building their hydro power ?
pete_dushenski: 199.204.187.186 << newest trb infrastructure node also finally synced up this week. took better part of a month but "shadchan" is now online and eager to serve.
☟︎ jurov: pete_dushenski: tyvm!
mircea_popescu: !!withdraw 0.00835605 1LEN3nuapQ1UBbxTvRZrsTMjUrJ1BU6RGR
mircea_popescu: !!withdraw 0.01051304 1PYXbgjhSinKLHZKc3PdVpUNBsuitowLPk
deedbot: asciilifeform_ voiced for 30 minutes.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-10 01:48 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this too was a 1980s txt
mod6: pete_dushenski: re qntra shares, thx!
a111: Logged on 2017-10-10 05:23 pete_dushenski: 199.204.187.186 << newest trb infrastructure node also finally synced up this week. took better part of a month but "shadchan" is now online and eager to serve.
mircea_popescu: so in other lulz, i'm buying some 10k+ karma reddit accounts ; who wants some for future republican lulz ? shinohai ? BingoBoingo ?
☟︎ trinque: asciilifeform: ate it, just said nothing; I'll look at why when I get a sec.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform employed i can see ; doing business ? people are allowed to hire whores.
mircea_popescu: also leaving out the "we will route your emails through outlook.com just in case nsa wants to not explain how it took a peek" lulz seems inappropriate.
mircea_popescu: and the grand utility of sasl logins grows ever more evident.
mircea_popescu: what can you do, this happens all the time on the interwebs, scammer copies site.
mircea_popescu: mine might be a little confusing, but sure, can use 91.218.246.33
mircea_popescu: maybe someone should make a post about why cherry servers is a piece of shit.
mircea_popescu: so they can you know, change name yet again and so on.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform was balticservers back when i got dulap originally.
mircea_popescu: i thought just usual "Branding" idiocy at the time. but a novel theory just presented itself.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: lulz venues always appreciated
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> why put it back. << For the imagined value of pretending "We were going above and beyond for valued customer"
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a111: Logged on 2017-10-10 15:39 mircea_popescu: so in other lulz, i'm buying some 10k+ karma reddit accounts ; who wants some for future republican lulz ? shinohai ? BingoBoingo ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo has a history of poking fun at the tards, so he's more than welcome.
shinohai: They may come in handy for the useful art of trolling one day!
BingoBoingo: Eh, really they just let you throw Xylene on the dumpster fire
BingoBoingo: It's more fun when you splash anthill with Xylene first
mircea_popescu got a two inch wasp mounted as part of permanent wax museum yest. 5 mm worth of stinger, this bitch had, and the weirdest antennae.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Likely it's a cultural thing. His mind had been colonized by Hollywood harm reduction propaganda
jhvh1: asciilifeform: 30e3 * 34.2e6 = 1026000000000
a111: Logged on 2017-07-20 01:13 asciilifeform: re space wasps << mircea_popescu: ever see 'Les Maîtres du temps' (animated) ?
mircea_popescu: there's these hydrocephalic ants, i kid you not, peasized heads atop tiny ant bodies
mircea_popescu: this one actually got killed by 98% alcohol flood. book couldn't crush it.
lobbesbot: Logged on 2017-10-10 19:54:45: <danielpbarron> what's the procedure for that? you create invoice and i respond?
BingoBoingo: So, California wine country is burning and I am disappoint that no one is making a connection between that and antifa terrorism against the percieved white bourgeoisie "exploiting" brown labor
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: California regularly burns, but a good percent of the time homo sapien malefactor is fingered as acute reason for the when and how of burning
BingoBoingo: Yes, US left coast 1 conventions are like dust. Gets everywhere.
BingoBoingo: For definitions of happy hour that involve coffee rather than more traditional happy hour beverages
BingoBoingo: In other "why was this a suprise": The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited (Towngas) has a large footprint in the Azn telecom market
mircea_popescu: trinque i very much dun think so. not in the feed atm, and never saw such before.
trinque: feeds module is a pyturd and it's having a hell of a time on the new server for yet mysterious reasons.
trinque: thing just needs ripped out. all the stuff wrote in own lisp code sat down on the new box without a peep.
mircea_popescu: to bring coal to the forest fire : any way you can think of to make micropayments instant ?
mircea_popescu: most processors want to see a txn within 15 mins, and most users have no idea they can set that interval to more sane values.\
trinque: other party just needs to have an account.
trinque: if doing it on chain, we're doing the hot wallet thing and I'm sitting around waiting to lose coin
trinque: I don't ever let keys touch an internet connected box
mircea_popescu: suppose i'm buying 30 bux worth of dildos online. me : "do you take btc ?" "sure". turns out it's via mycelium/bitpay/coinbase, and the above applies.
mircea_popescu: i gotta then "hey, i paid, it was not credited, here's the details" bla bla.
trinque: trb wallet is a piece of shit. I have yet to build a full replacement, and that's going to take a while.
trinque: now, I do have subscriptions planned for the bot.
trinque: both to offer subscriptions myself and other registered folks.
trinque: yeah, might as well save fee
trinque: could see "hosted trb node with levers attached to bot" as a subscribable service.
BingoBoingo: trinque: Are your offering super, mega, ultra, or cheapest effort?
BingoBoingo: working on decoding that myself, found said adjectives attached to effort in the wilds
trinque built first an armored vault.
trinque: neither network nor hateful USB thieves touch it. human operator enters txn details; txn leave signed via qr code.
mircea_popescu: trinque we're just poking fun at hong-kong style english names. super-extra-effort-pizzeria
trinque: no reason there can't also be amenities aside the vault.
trinque: lol, oh. had my srsbsns switch flipped.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, Gerrys by the grace of Allah advertises its... US General Services Administration approval...
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BingoBoingo: Withing crashing margin of error for super effort
shinohai: I glanced at my screen and read "cumtacks"
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deedbot: asciilifeform rated ccmtacks 1 << new blood