#pest | 2023-01-09

$ticker btc usd

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busybot

Current BTC price in USD: $17318.57

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13:51

Fun Costa Rican catch-22: You can only drive on your foreign license for 90 days AND You can't apply for a Costa Rican license unless you've been in country for 91 days.

13:52

awt: consecutively ?

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asciilifeform: yes

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lulzy

13:52

by day 91 they expect you to have a pack of bitches driving you around, or consider you failed.

13:53

signpost: yeah well my bitch's visa expires soon

13:53

lol, damn!

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signpost just making jokes over here.

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13:54

seems par for the course in bananistans -- yer expected to 'follow 11th commandment' & pay bakshish if stopped by police

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rather like uruguay customs

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( i.e. if you actually insist on having 'all paperwork in order' you'll pay over9000 )

13:55

a sort of 'fool tax' on reich escapees

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asciilifeform: I was in fact already stopped a few days after the limit. For some reason they let me off and gave me a fist bump.

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asciilifeform recalls his fool's errand of trying to get a 'legit' bank acct in ro

13:56

ticos are pretty cool. awt are you making a permanent relocation down there?

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13:56

(spoiler: impossible)

14:01

http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2023-01-09#1020223 << it was a funny joke I loled

14:01

bitbot

Logged on 2023-01-09 13:54:02 signpost: just making jokes over here.

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http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2023-01-09#1020230 << I wouldn't say permanant but certainly indefinite and likely at least a year so I can take advantage of the foreign earned income exclusion while while I have a contract.

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bitbot

Logged on 2023-01-09 13:56:43 signpost: ticos are pretty cool. awt are you making a permanent relocation down there?

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asciilifeform: As I'm sure you know all the foreign banks report on you to the IRS. There's some sort of reward system. That said here at least having a local account makes everything payment related 10x easier.

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awt: not only report, but this appears to be enuff of a headache for'em that in many places they simply tell you to fuckoff if you've only us passport.

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(afaik they get no rewards, only buncha paperwork to fill at own expense, per reich treaty obligation)

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asciilifeform: I definitely read somewhere that some of the massive fines you pay if caught goes to reward local snitches.

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awt: would make sense, but asciilifeform has nfi ; not actively followed subj since '17 expedition

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signpost notices that asciilifeform's packets are coming from a new port

14:36

pulled the updated port from deedbot's AT, but still hearing as hearsay from this station

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http://deedbot.org/help.html

!!help

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deedbot

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asciilifeform: did you receive that deedbot message directly?

~ 1 hours 44 minutes ~

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signpost: nope, recvd via awt

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weird, because you looked current in deedbot's AT

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asciilifeform not, apparently, switched dynamic ip here

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signpost: and deedbot seems to be current on this end

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nfi

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23:04

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asciilifeform meanwhile, lulzily, found that the wx widget most suited to displaying log lines is atrociously slow on gtk/linux (blazing fast on crapple, for all the good that does asciilifeform) so will have to 'draw' that one (and handle text sel., etc somehow) after

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* after all

23:07

how 'drawing' worx ftr. moar or less 'naked' x11-style, tho you do get a font renderer.

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asciilifeform considers a log view where can't select/copypasta quite useless

23:09

the usual way to display 'civilized' word-wrapped/selectable/pastable text in wx ftr. dunwork with the 'fast' scrolled window thing tho, cuz creates objects, no longer 'fast'.

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this is why os-supplied gui widgets are ugh. (and aint a wx-specific issue at all for that matter) -- can't meaningfully compose them in arbitrary way

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asciilifeform encountered this kinda horror before.

23:11

bitbot

(asciilifeform) 2022-01-04 asciilifeform: cgra: that aint the hard part. the hard (and seemingly impossible part) is permitting ~clickable~ links in edit box ~while it is editable~, none of the existing gui kits for x11 seem to support it.

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asciilifeform has notion that he can 'cheat' by 'floating' a wxtextctrl on top of log line when clicked, where can then select etc

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