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00:12 mircea_popescu lol
00:12 BingoBoingo Well, that's a distinct hazard of meeting people and making friends
00:12 mircea_popescu !!balance
00:12 deedbot http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/bo8FJ/?raw=true
00:16 mircea_popescu lobbes that's what they get for not using teh wot.
00:29 deedbot http://trilema.com/2017/talent-triumphant-or-on-empathy/ << Trilema - Talent Triumphant, or : On Empathy
00:35 mircea_popescu hanbot your bot ate my links. anyway, here : http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-07#1498460
00:35 a111 Logged on 2016-07-07 01:11 mircea_popescu: meanwhile i fished out vintage "classic" and "default" themes : http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/classic-themestar.gz
00:36 mircea_popescu and i guess http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-06#1498134
00:36 a111 Logged on 2016-07-06 15:53 mircea_popescu: incidentally : someone writing a tex processor for serenity (ex mp-wp) themes that shinohai can then just import as a standard would be pretty epic.
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00:54 lobbes mircea_popescu, it really is a wonderful tool in the serenity belt.
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01:32 mircea_popescu word.
01:34 mircea_popescu in fucking epic past lulz, http://btcbase.org/log/2015-12-24#1352206
01:34 a111 Logged on 2015-12-24 19:04 mircea_popescu: "We hired a local operations manager in Denver (Sasha Juliard) and soon launched at Shotgun Willie’s (the highest-grossing strip club in CO) and two other bars. We made about $1,200 on each deal (50% went to DexOne, we spent $800 on each launch event and we had $500 in hardware costs), this was the only sales revenue Flowtab ever made. We were tightening up our sales process, but it was hard to market ourselves prope
01:37 mircea_popescu !~ticker --market all
01:38 jhvh1 mircea_popescu: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 5767.01, vol: 10184.42248482 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 5747.9, vol: 38124.72614312 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 5778.8, vol: 3900.45602985 | Volume-weighted last average: 5753.93621512
01:38 mircea_popescu !~calc 25 / 5753.93621512
01:38 jhvh1 mircea_popescu: 25 / 5753.93621512 = 0.0043448517789102074
01:39 mircea_popescu !~calc 115 / 5753.93621512
01:39 jhvh1 mircea_popescu: 115 / 5753.93621512 = 0.019986318182986955
01:39 mircea_popescu !!withdraw 0.01998631 1v2bMXrMnewz4myVFoYRnmWteBz9HPqLq
01:40 deedbot Get your OTP: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/8yALS/?raw=true
01:53 mircea_popescu and in other good behaviours, http://78.media.tumblr.com/e7b02d41647a73e28b36a7a0d591d8d8/tumblr_nm3fyroZta1tjnnm5o1_1280.jpg
02:03 BingoBoingo !~bcstats
02:03 jhvh1 BingoBoingo: Current Blocks: 491793 | Current Difficulty: 1.196792694098E12 | Next Difficulty At Block: 491903 | Next Difficulty In: 110 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: None | Next Difficulty Estimate: None | Estimated Percent Change: None
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07:16 shinohai R.I.P. Fats Domino http://btcinfo.sdf.org/uploads/drill.jpg
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08:28 shinohai http://archive.is/AmajG
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09:16 * asciilifeform loaded up on quality clothing, shoes, etc unavailable in usa. funnily, exactly like his father did 30y ago in ro !
09:21 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729125 << iirc it was a kind of mechanized reddit..?
09:21 a111 Logged on 2017-10-26 00:27 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1729077 << in some archive somewhere. was going to auction it off but then got annoyed with something in the vein of http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-14#1714557 and simply tabled it instead.
09:22 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729131 << betcha you did it in own parking, or jungle road, lol. the gas comes from ~other~ people’s tailpipes! in traffic jam, in tunnel, etc !
09:22 a111 Logged on 2017-10-26 00:30 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1729102 << i did this recently because car failed emission tests originally ; no beeps.
09:23 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729135 << we’ve been doing 20-30km/day, explored good chunk of it
09:23 a111 Logged on 2017-10-26 00:31 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1729116 << verily. timisoara can be walked on foot in a day.
09:24 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729139 << usg - enemy of all things healthily human
09:24 a111 Logged on 2017-10-26 02:40 lobbes: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1728918 << 'Tis insanity, indeed. Some hobbyist cheese-makers / real-milk enthusists near Amish lands have been known to engage in 'black market' raw milk transactions. FDA regularly sets up sting operations to crack down on the 'contraband': http://archive.is/nfrox
09:25 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729141 << believe or not, none detectable to naked eye. nobody’s smashing things, screaming, barfing
09:25 a111 Logged on 2017-10-26 02:42 lobbes: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1729064 << I'd wager there is no such town on the planet. Spend enough time anywhere and you'll find plenty of subhumans. I'm reminded of mini-thread: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-07#1652720
09:26 asciilifeform tho i did finally see cops arresting a d00d. seemed as if for: double-parking
09:27 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729160 << for perhaps first time in life i have real shoes nao
09:27 a111 Logged on 2017-10-26 03:50 ben_vulpes: good walking shoes are in order
09:28 * asciilifeform bbl
09:28 diana_coman asciilifeform, I wouldn't say Fain was mechanised really, can't quite see how that would fit
09:29 diana_coman people proposed blog posts they considered worthy (whatever measure they used for it) with link+short description; people could vote on previously proposed links
09:30 diana_coman and talk around them, sure
09:31 diana_coman re barfing in the streets tbh that's in my books a very much western/northern thing
09:43 diana_coman I guess the "mechanised" part about Fain could be the automated grading of *people* based on their activity aka the "karma" points that had quite direct implications re what one could do (even whether they could comment at all)
09:46 asciilifeform sounds like a reddit then ?
09:47 asciilifeform or possibly moar like ‘metafilter’ ( does that still exist..? )
09:47 diana_coman asciilifeform, I'm not very knowledgeable on reddit but I thought it was something where people asked questions and then their comments were voted up/down ?
09:47 asciilifeform no, mostly links
09:47 asciilifeform the question thing was a bolt-on
09:49 diana_coman hm; and does the system rate people/accounts basically? I think that was a crucial part of it like anywhere: if one is useful then one can do as much and what they like; if not,then ...no
09:49 asciilifeform approx. yea
09:51 diana_coman well, approximations can make or kill a thing, but otherwise I guess you can call it that then (though by this token I'm not sure one won't be able to approximate almost any online thing to "a reddit")
09:53 diana_coman as scope iirc fain was restricted to blogs in Romanian, might be worth adding
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10:37 mod6 mornin'
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11:53 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729191 << something like that. a gameified blog weighing/commenting platform ; worked as the ~onyl source of bitcoin for romanians for a year or two back when if they had the sense, it'd have meant something. a few did have the sense, most are powered by the same broken rustbox as powers the strippers and other experts in hallucinary freedoms.
11:53 a111 Logged on 2017-10-26 13:21 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729125 << iirc it was a kind of mechanized reddit..?
11:53 mircea_popescu it might be useful for the republic once there's enough publishing thoroughput we have to actually consider limiting access to deedbot rss ; that moment is many years away yet.
11:55 mircea_popescu the truth of the matter however is that to a large degree fain was powered by the original web delusion, "oh, lowering barriers to human creativity is what economy is all about". it's not. there's no such thing as "human creativity" in the sense of the general mass, and the barriers are there to keep us from the female wail.
11:55 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729193 << well yes, of course.
11:55 a111 Logged on 2017-10-26 13:22 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729131 << betcha you did it in own parking, or jungle road, lol. the gas comes from ~other~ people’s tailpipes! in traffic jam, in tunnel, etc !
11:55 mircea_popescu that'd explain it then, such lovely green out here.
11:57 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729197 << imagine, you know. contraband cheese sting operations. this is what teh taxpayer wants his money spent on, and somehow no nubbins is on hand to explain better.
11:57 a111 Logged on 2017-10-26 13:24 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729139 << usg - enemy of all things healthily human
11:58 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729201 << oh god almighty, if they only started arresting romanians for bad parking. this is like arresting indians for poor hygiene, or native americans for drunkedness.
11:58 a111 Logged on 2017-10-26 13:26 asciilifeform: tho i did finally see cops arresting a d00d. seemed as if for: double-parking
11:58 mircea_popescu i hope they give him the chair.
12:02 mircea_popescu aaand in other dollies, http://78.media.tumblr.com/770237a25b80cac9b8f146d9d88792bc/tumblr_mku9s9aT1E1rqv1ypo1_1280.jpg
12:05 shinohai good gawd almity
12:05 mircea_popescu ha-HA!
12:06 mircea_popescu there's more. http://78.media.tumblr.com/40bda38cc3ac7698a4cdd0f22c607cee/tumblr_mku9s9aT1E1rqv1ypo2_1280.jpg
12:09 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729208 << amusingly, the same places that permit female drunkedness.
12:09 a111 Logged on 2017-10-26 13:31 diana_coman: re barfing in the streets tbh that's in my books a very much western/northern thing
12:10 diana_coman mircea_popescu, what would be the link? my obs is that it's more whether drink is something that goes with meal and at any time or just something "special" aka binge idiocy
12:11 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729211 << reddit didn't exist at the time we're discussing in any practical sense above "this obscure website some pedos gathered on to exchange their trading cards". it was something in the vein of metafilter i guess, or else something in the vein of digg, or else you know, one of the first sites making the transition from myspace/tripod/facebook to the latter style reddit/facebook/etcetera.
12:11 a111 Logged on 2017-10-26 13:47 asciilifeform: or possibly moar like ‘metafilter’ ( does that still exist..? )
12:11 diana_coman and at the end of the day more of a measure of balance overall even
12:11 mircea_popescu diana_coman i expect the reason drunks aren't as bothered by puke as the normal human is that they're so used to it. so a direct link might be that the women that habitually drink aren't nearly as likely to clean it up.
12:12 diana_coman I don't see it
12:12 mircea_popescu diana_coman ah, cvas as the rusian notion wasn't contemplated.
12:12 mircea_popescu but perhaps one of the most striking things from my first visit in london, cca 1994, striking enough that i still remember them,
12:13 mircea_popescu was the urine secent and the blind drunk hens. everywhere.
12:14 diana_coman can say same just that blind drunk whatever-sex; the striking part was more how-and-where drunk than sex of idiots
12:14 mircea_popescu prior to that, i think i had seen a drunk woman, in the sense of unable to stand, like twice ? if that. who the fuck drank like the brits, nfi.
12:14 mircea_popescu diana_coman well i had seen numerous rural middle aged males unable to walk. heck, it was the principal activity in the communism's abandoned factories by 94.
12:14 mircea_popescu those schmucks imagined they can just check out, europe's gonna provide. and boy has it provided.
12:15 diana_coman uhm, I've seen rural all-sexes drunk unable to walk
12:15 mircea_popescu at the time they still had the draft ; i was dodging it. people were like ... "hey, there's this special military unit, we get whores and liquor delivered by the truck weekly, you gotta come man."
12:15 mircea_popescu diana_coman a really ?
12:15 diana_coman just that women were usually (as they were at most times anyway) drunk *indoors*
12:15 diana_coman that's all
12:16 mircea_popescu hm.
12:16 mircea_popescu well ok, our experience diverges then, or at least teh memory thereof.
12:16 diana_coman sure, they weren't getting drunk at *same time* as males basically
12:16 mircea_popescu when then ?
12:16 diana_coman when males away/snoring/whatever; I should have said not same place+time I guess
12:17 mircea_popescu but drunk on what, fucking visinata ?
12:17 diana_coman possibly same time, just ..separate places; if at same place then they would rather be sober yeah
12:17 mircea_popescu diabethes comes before inebriation.
12:17 diana_coman pshew; tuica, what else
12:17 diana_coman or rachiu rather as tuica gone
12:17 mircea_popescu man... where the hell was this ? not even in teh viseu have i seen drunk ladies, and those bitches drank.
12:17 diana_coman baragan
12:17 mircea_popescu ah. hm.
12:18 diana_coman as I said: they were gathering at one's home, women only and...drink
12:18 mircea_popescu is female drunkedness culturally permitted in teh south ?
12:19 diana_coman not encouraged in public I'd say, as such; fwiw I did not actually drink almost at all while I was in Ro ; possibly because I saw those, who knows
12:19 mircea_popescu this is a large matter ; people don't generally realise it, but there's a large push, socially, towards things. for instance, in transylvania, my girls got REGULARILY approached, by EVERYONE, all the time. "not to sit on concrete -- won't be able to have children ; not to go barefoot -- won't be able to" and so on and so forth. woman gotta be henpecked!
12:19 diana_coman but in any case: I've never seen barfing in the street until I got to the west
12:19 mircea_popescu on the other hand, one of the main complaints of foreign girls was "wtf why do they spit in the street!!!"
12:20 mircea_popescu which they do.
12:20 diana_coman eh, that was still everywhere; and yeah, I even got approached when with child: he's too cold! he's too hot! why is he /isn't he...
12:20 mircea_popescu o yeah, kids is like the boss level.
12:20 mircea_popescu "omg he's going to fall" "bitch, go make one then you can worry about it. this one can fall."
12:21 diana_coman when he was too little to talk I would just say he's fine, thank you or shrug mainly; now I can let him reply and usually he innocently floors them anyway so win
12:21 mircea_popescu ahaha. cool.
12:21 mircea_popescu but anyway, if it's not female drinking, then what is it ?
12:22 diana_coman as I said: lack of balance overall really
12:22 diana_coman so they don't drink AT ALL during the week
12:22 diana_coman but then on Friday they drink anything and everything and FAST
12:22 mircea_popescu ah. exactly how they go blind drunk at 21 because random magic nuymbers and crash into a pole ?
12:22 mircea_popescu not a bad theory.
12:23 diana_coman and well, they don't know how to drink either - no surprise since no practice with sane people
12:23 mircea_popescu alternatively urban hostility i suppose could be the culprit. there's some trilema pointing out how "this projects dweller dude is taking time out of his time off to fix a bench in the little sandy park in front of his concrete matchbox ; baltimore projects dude would just sit by pole glaring at traffic".
12:24 mircea_popescu diana_coman in this vein was lulzy thing at lesbian club, chick is "i have no idea why i'm getting so drunk ?!?" "you keep drinking" "what ?! it suddenly hit me like... wtf." "you keep drinking." "what do you mean ?"
12:25 mircea_popescu "i think they slipped me a mickey"
12:25 mircea_popescu lulz of all time.
12:26 diana_coman lol!
12:27 diana_coman maybe; the other part of it (which I don't know if it's just my sample bias or what) is that in the north drink is a sort of crutch: southerners I know can act crazy without drinking ; northerners...can't ; so when want-to-crazy-need-to-drink
12:27 mircea_popescu you know ? "what could it be". well doh. "even males will lose it if they pound shots. you're good for maybe a 100 per hour, if well trained."
12:27 diana_coman theoretically emotional crutch, but not sure what exactly
12:27 mircea_popescu an excuse to "act out of character" ?
12:27 diana_coman aha
12:27 mircea_popescu if this were the case latin america would be one huge boozing.
12:27 diana_coman uhm?
12:27 diana_coman no, latin america southerners
12:27 mircea_popescu these people REALLY need a crutch. they don't manage to ever lose it.
12:27 diana_coman they can without drink
12:28 diana_coman eh, no
12:28 mircea_popescu diana_coman how south ? argentina is shockingly script-following.
12:28 diana_coman it's not about losing it
12:28 diana_coman it's about decoupling rational more though this is already nonsense put as such
12:29 mircea_popescu i dunno. in other counterexamples, all the finns i know are actually pacified by vodka. all fucking irritable otherwise.
12:29 diana_coman again, pacified or violent has nothing to do with it!
12:29 mircea_popescu hm.
12:29 diana_coman basically the northerner can't hug you if he feels like it unless drunk
12:29 mircea_popescu well not lose it, not pacified/violent... what's "out of character" mean ? becoming fairies ?
12:29 diana_coman he can't probably stab you either for that matter
12:29 mircea_popescu hug you or hug me ?
12:30 diana_coman both, either, lol
12:30 mircea_popescu hm.
12:30 mircea_popescu i have very much noticed they can't talk to girls at all these days, wherein a coupla decades ago couldn't without a coupla shots.
12:30 diana_coman whether he hugs or stabs when drunk is a matter of what ails him; but whether he can do it whatever it is , is the point
12:31 mircea_popescu tis possibru.
12:39 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729212 << no that thing is experstsexchange. reddit originated as a sort of fark, "look at this cool pic" tho it originally was more like original wikipedia, "look at this cool pic of a 6 yo with her mother's toenail polish bottle up her snatch" ; migrated into a sort of livejournal "write lengthy pieces of nonsense so everyone's tulpas can pompously opine on it" sometime in the mid 2010s.
12:39 a111 Logged on 2017-10-26 13:47 diana_coman: asciilifeform, I'm not very knowledgeable on reddit but I thought it was something where people asked questions and then their comments were voted up/down ?
12:40 mircea_popescu kinda the perpetual bait and switch of "world changing" silicon valley "businesses" in the "industry" aka websites for the rest of the world, still vying for the supposedly valuable "UGC". except for the part where there's no ugc nor would it be valuable, all's well.
12:42 mircea_popescu there's this ancient http://trilema.com/2011/cred-ca-pe-alocuri-se-exagereaza/#selection-67.167-67.603 making roughly the same point : "there's no such thing as user generated content because the content generators aren't your users, they're content generators ; and your users aren't content generators, they're users, and not even that dedicatedly yours."
12:45 deedbot mircea_popescu: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/9VqRm/?raw=true
12:59 mircea_popescu anyway, back to the bait and switch thing. reddit started life as a sort of 4chan with a jump, ie the little girl's not on the page, but you have to click. this wasn't accidental, because their phase 2 ("growth phase" eh) consisted of the exact value proposition : add your crap to reddit, watch people click on it. once growth stopped they dropped the bait, switched to "we will control the conversation in this ever-so-importan
12:59 mircea_popescu t space", in the hope they'll achieve usg agency status. which went nowhere, but then again there's no such thing as a buried corpse in socialism. it's not just craig wright that's still perambulating ; the original founder of webvan is still about. his business idea ? WEB POWERED DELIVERY OF GROCERIES! yes, 20 years later. no such thing as a burian in socialism.
13:04 mircea_popescu meanwhile facebook started as a "put your crap on this alt-myspace and check out the large numeric values printed to GOOD THING". basically, facebook was one of those "webvisitors counters" except in a more skinner-y scheme. recently they dropped the bait and are essentially trying to capitalize on what's known in economy as stickiness, the exact same psychological tendency as discussed in http://trilema.com/2014/the-battlefi
13:04 mircea_popescu eld-of-the-future/#footnote_3_53044 : "oh you used to get large values of GOOD ITEM freely ? well no more. would you like to pay us to get them again ?"
13:05 mircea_popescu which they imagine is an "advertising model", but it's directly and quite evidently a burning of the couch.
13:06 mircea_popescu and the examples could continue, SV has been trying to move away from "content generation" into "real world performance", with major blow-ups like groupon ("sign up for free meals and if we get a lot of you we'll try and parlay this into a sort of communist walmart"), or with slow-burning shitpiles like uber, airbnb etc. in the end, the same truth controls : you've no user-generated real world performance because the real wor
13:06 mircea_popescu ld performers are not your users, and "your" users aren't either performers or yours.
13:07 asciilifeform ohai mircea_popescu
13:07 mircea_popescu the similar "technology! science!" gamification of the democrat party failed "surprisingly" to everyone in the "technology! science! mit is the foremost institution in the world without running water!" camp, but otherwise doh.
13:07 mircea_popescu hola asciilifeform
13:08 * mircea_popescu innocently tried to comment on logline, ended up writing a book.
13:09 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729222 << i picture that at that time there will be a meaningful l3+ ecosystem
13:09 a111 Logged on 2017-10-26 15:53 mircea_popescu: it might be useful for the republic once there's enough publishing thoroughput we have to actually consider limiting access to deedbot rss ; that moment is many years away yet.
13:09 asciilifeform and that reddits, as a class (i.e. system designed for rando-rando interaction) dun really have a role
13:09 mircea_popescu asciilifeform quite exactly.
13:10 asciilifeform well not a role in tmsr, at any rate. potentially as a sort of kindergarten, or slave pit, where you can see the heads and pick out promising larvae potentially
13:11 mircea_popescu anyway, there's still an open thread god damned it. so re "in the hope they'll achieve usg agency status" above : the final socialism, usg's "ourdemocracy" came up with a gamified nationalization process : they naturally confiscate the domain leaders in all domains, under the guise of you know, "pension fund investments" and "consumer protection law enforcement". ie, there's a faux money and a faux legal prong which make sure
13:11 mircea_popescu that if your google is successful, your google belongs to usg. which it was, and does.
13:12 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729227 << there's a 2010s pc game, where you preside over generic 'iron curtain' apartment block, and get various orders from kgb, e.g. 'root out tenants who read english books', but also had 'apples have been prohibited, storing or eating them is punishable'. i immediately pictured fda.
13:12 a111 Logged on 2017-10-26 15:57 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729197 << imagine, you know. contraband cheese sting operations. this is what teh taxpayer wants his money spent on, and somehow no nubbins is on hand to explain better.
13:12 mircea_popescu the process was apparently well received by "the society", which is to say poor people. exactly like in the original nazi and soviet implementations. except while in the first two the elite actually fled, in this last one the elite is playing the inept game of "i wonder if i can make a steelworks so successful hitler actually steals it from me".
13:12 mircea_popescu which is shockingly dumb, and also what tmsr is intended to end.
13:12 asciilifeform ( 'beholder' if anyone gives a shit, i saw it by sheer accident )
13:13 mircea_popescu but in any case, the process is wildly successful -- the whole "oh noes, corporate responsibility, banks stole our money" went exactly nowhere FOR THE EXACT REASON the usg "banks" play the role of the soviet planning committee. such can do no ill, by definition of state in socialism, and so... they WILL be rescued, with "money" freshly printed.
13:13 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i suspect that this switch followed inevitably from ' i just want to get rich because comforts ' switch
13:13 asciilifeform ( from 'i will get rich because fuck you and esp your daughters' )
13:13 mircea_popescu whenever the poor get a voice, the world goes to shit and socialism is what's left.
13:14 asciilifeform d00d whose steel works get nationalized -- gets token payoff, warm place to shit
13:14 asciilifeform and that's all that, e.g., brin, wanted
13:14 mircea_popescu aha.
13:14 asciilifeform 'money as in infinite ice cream' vs 'money as in control of means of production' or how did old trilema put it.
13:15 mircea_popescu anyway. the situation is not stable, in the sense usg can't administer all this immense government with huge industrial interests in everything. which is why even china is giving it a run for its money.
13:15 asciilifeform hitler is giving the infinite icecream lottery winner, ostensibly exactly what he wanted.
13:15 mircea_popescu problem is what you want and what you need are rarely the same.
13:15 asciilifeform noshit.jpg
13:15 mircea_popescu myeah. anyway, so that's a round statement of the story, in that it's not missing anything but details.
13:17 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729229 << d00d was some sort of german whatever GMbH courier. inside atrociously parked van was a wife-like thing, looking on
13:17 a111 Logged on 2017-10-26 15:58 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729201 << oh god almighty, if they only started arresting romanians for bad parking. this is like arresting indians for poor hygiene, or native americans for drunkedness.
13:19 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729238 << usa is set 100% to 'binge' mode
13:19 a111 Logged on 2017-10-26 16:10 diana_coman: mircea_popescu, what would be the link? my obs is that it's more whether drink is something that goes with meal and at any time or just something "special" aka binge idiocy
13:19 mircea_popescu in other lulz from alf's latest love, http://spynews.ro/actualitate/foto-alerta-in-timisoara-un-barbat-arestat-a-fost-ajutat-de-trecatori-sa-fuga-147038.html
13:20 asciilifeform lol rubber shooter
13:20 asciilifeform so ru
13:20 asciilifeform so 1998
13:20 mircea_popescu yes well.
13:21 asciilifeform they dun believe in normal pistol or wat
13:21 mircea_popescu eh, kids. what do they know.
13:22 asciilifeform iirc in ru rubber-shooters vanished after it was made clear that penalty is exactly same if 'patient' bites it
13:22 asciilifeform ( which, interestingly, is not unlikely at sword range )
13:22 asciilifeform possibly phf can add moardetail.
13:23 mircea_popescu the thing with romania is that essentially there isn't a penalty for anything. just please don't fucking do it.
13:23 asciilifeform lol
13:23 mircea_popescu now, this worked fine in the 90s, when the statal motherly "please don't do it" was backed by my "motherfucker if i see you again ima use you for fish bait".
13:23 mircea_popescu these days... slowly decaying into the usual french fare.
13:24 asciilifeform this is not visible to naked eye here. i do have 14 hrs of bucharest planned so maybe will see it there.
13:24 mircea_popescu well it wouldn't be visible to teh naked eye of civillian in a day.
13:25 asciilifeform oh you betcha it is visible in dc or nyc or chicago
13:25 mircea_popescu but anyway, i do beleive that;'s the only way to run things. heck, romania has NO JAIL for vehicular manslaughter to this fucking day, iirc.
13:25 asciilifeform not even mentioning baltimoristan
13:25 mircea_popescu this sort of thing WORKS. and it did work. and it made for pleasant police and happy sluts everywhere.
13:26 mircea_popescu asciilifeform usg took opposite tack : instead of allying with underworld elite to keep underworld wanna-bes harmelss, it allied with underworld wannabes to "remove corruption" bla bla. as a result they got the orc cycle, as well explained by lafond and many others.
13:26 mircea_popescu where the only incentive is to be an idiot, aged 16 to maybe 19, as you won't live to 30 anyway.
13:26 asciilifeform this notional decay, from asciilifeform's unarmed eye it is 100% notional, i went to a motherfucking tiled market thing today, bought cheese that was actually cheese, old women shoved delish samples, all in all maybe 400 grams, in my face, and put it on bread from next stall that was actually bread, and ate it by the canal side, and sat next to randos on bench, and nobody harrassed, robbed, or even
13:26 asciilifeform was loud or annoying
13:26 asciilifeform does mircea_popescu have any idea how atypical all of this is for usa ?
13:27 asciilifeform or the fact that the air smelled like pines and not like exhaust, or shit, or mcfood ?
13:27 mircea_popescu yes. the place you describe, btw, is prolly "bad curtain" mentioned afore.
13:27 asciilifeform it was
13:27 mircea_popescu and yeah, all visitors agree. INCREDIBRU!!1
13:28 mircea_popescu asciilifeform see, here's where pantsuit idiots a la "sam the more romanian than you" get it wrong. the REASON!!! there's nobody annoying, harassing, robbing etc is... guess ?
13:28 asciilifeform also for BingoBoingo , ben_vulpes , other usaschwitz inmated, i will point out that the experience cost me about $2 .
13:28 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i have only foggy notion of the reason, beyond 'no welfaristan, so no niggers'
13:28 mircea_popescu https://kingofromania.com/2013/06/19/mr-saxo-beat/ << grep for "low level warfare".
13:29 mircea_popescu the FACT that poor people are not protected from assault by the state means that poor people are pleasant and polite.
13:29 mircea_popescu and in general -- the less protected the poor, the more useful and pleasant the poor. and vice-versa. the worst thing you can do for a place is "prosecute assault" on the non-elite.
13:29 asciilifeform this is entirely believable
13:29 mircea_popescu it'd better be believable, seeing how it's factual.
13:29 asciilifeform and is the common thread of civilized life everywhere
13:29 mircea_popescu quite so.
13:30 asciilifeform from old england , for what it was worth, to old japan
13:30 asciilifeform it's believable in the newton's laws sense .
13:31 asciilifeform 'The guy can get his day in court if it wasn’t he who did this but I’m damned glad to see the Romanian general public take her side in this and not just laugh it off.' << waaat
13:31 asciilifeform holy fuq why haven't they thrown this d00d out !
13:31 asciilifeform i was reading the citizenship rtfm talmud and it said clearly, 'threats to national serenity can be kicked out' or what was it
13:31 asciilifeform if this fruit ain't it, then who is.
13:32 asciilifeform ( speaking of author of quoted item , in case not obvious )
13:32 mircea_popescu the only problem is that they kick out the threats to usg.
13:32 asciilifeform like who
13:32 mircea_popescu afaik the only one to ever get hassled by that was rogozin.
13:32 asciilifeform he was a ru member of parliament neh
13:32 mircea_popescu afaik deputy pm
13:32 asciilifeform designated hate object
13:32 mircea_popescu designated by whom
13:32 asciilifeform by usghitler naturally
13:32 mircea_popescu kinda my point.
13:33 asciilifeform agents of foreign crowns are traditionally fair game for 'nongrata' tho, neh
13:33 mircea_popescu except this was in no sense romanian.
13:33 mircea_popescu how about they kick out a few ustards ?
13:33 asciilifeform it isn't as if they'd kicked out some independent d00d
13:34 mircea_popescu the entirety of the objection is that rogozin was nongrata in washington not in bucharest.
13:34 asciilifeform lol the time to kick ustards was prolly before the time of letting usg army division occupy the sea shore, eh
13:34 asciilifeform aah well yes
13:34 mircea_popescu anyway. they also "let" russian army division occupy same. romania's very letty.
13:35 asciilifeform small countries either get larger or do good bit of 'letting' neh
13:35 asciilifeform swiss 'let' germany.
13:35 mircea_popescu well... poland tried not letting, ended up partitioned how many times ?
13:35 asciilifeform aha
13:36 mircea_popescu poland about twice the size. at least ideally.
13:37 * asciilifeform fiddles with the terminal to the tune of pet practicing ro-fu
13:37 * asciilifeform also found the 'black market' today, where gypsies sell questionable shit, lotsa lulzy pics
13:37 mircea_popescu where is this ?
13:37 asciilifeform pieces ripped out of comps, mobos, house mains sockets, rando pieces of sov equip, b00kz ..
13:38 asciilifeform next to the vegetable market
13:38 mircea_popescu mmm. that's a flea market you.
13:38 asciilifeform well yes i grew up with one
13:38 asciilifeform early '90s odessa 'old horse market' sold from live rabbits to icbm guidance block components
13:38 asciilifeform i'd beg father to take me there every saturday
13:38 mircea_popescu lol
13:39 mircea_popescu yeah, actually, the flea market was a major component of ghetto jew identity.
13:39 asciilifeform but here is was hilarious how obviously filched some of the items were -- wireless 'house' phones with only handset, no base, faceplates of car stereos, etc
13:39 mircea_popescu (the jewish ghetto is an older item than the german state, for the record)
13:39 asciilifeform cheap jewelry
13:39 mircea_popescu it's this fascinating "market of the world". great item to have nearby.
13:40 asciilifeform this place apparently is judenrein so gypsy folx had to pick up the slack.
13:40 mircea_popescu plenty of elderly blue collar ro, im sure.
13:40 asciilifeform them too ! in overalls !
13:40 asciilifeform look like just escaped from su wall posters
13:40 asciilifeform only missing item is sledge
13:41 asciilifeform i immediately thought of the rhyme
13:41 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-21#1486093 << subj
13:41 a111 Logged on 2016-06-21 01:18 mircea_popescu: "mult stimate ion caciula, om al muncii fara scula : cit ai degete si limba, legea tarii nu se schimba."
13:41 mircea_popescu before "vintage" was a thing i used to buy girlies gifts from teh very place. there's something heartwarming about 90yo woman yielding whatever old clock to 16yo hussy for a pataca.
13:41 alex__c unsure if you're talking about Aurora/Flavia or some other flea market
13:41 asciilifeform 'muncii fara scula'
13:41 mircea_popescu alex__c i expect he just ran into the badea cirtan ad hoc extension.
13:42 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: it's in alley right before piaza traian
13:42 mircea_popescu well, not THE very place, but cluj had its own, "oser".
13:42 asciilifeform on 3 aug '19 boulevard
13:42 asciilifeform aah
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13:43 mircea_popescu google you suck wtf.
13:45 alex__c http://www.versuri.ro/versuri/pasarea-colibri-strada-popa-nan-_p7d2.html
13:45 mircea_popescu aha.
13:45 mircea_popescu IT IS SUPPOSED TO GET THE JOKE
13:46 mircea_popescu i read it all about alphabet inventing ai, playing go, errythang.
13:46 alex__c that's still in beta mkay
13:47 mircea_popescu all they ever make is betas.
13:50 mircea_popescu incidentally asciilifeform : there's a 50% chance native speaker fails to note that refrain. ITS FUCKING HARD.
14:02 asciilifeform wai wat's hard
14:04 mircea_popescu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CK7x5dJfhI <
14:04 asciilifeform aa
14:15 asciilifeform neato
14:30 * asciilifeform is gonna have to buy another trunk, to carry the sov-era kidz bookz in ro, ceaucescu hat, misc. lulzolade, home
14:32 asciilifeform phunphakt, asciilifeform's relatives dun believe the tale 'though it be told unto them', they have ro burned into rom as bucharest circa 1980 or so
~ 18 minutes ~
14:50 mircea_popescu heh.
14:52 mircea_popescu i suppose for the same money i shall pretend russia is == gorky.
14:53 asciilifeform many ameritards actually pictured 1980s su as 50s, ask asciilifeform re how was gulag etc
14:53 asciilifeform balalaika, bear, reactor !
14:53 mircea_popescu yeah well.
14:55 mircea_popescu in other similarily meaningless lulz, http://sashat.me/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/loopol-01.png
14:58 mircea_popescu (dude has various digested-obscura, like say https://sashat.me/2017/06/03/roman-roads/ ; arguably the pinnacle cultural product of the web era)
14:59 mircea_popescu on cursory examination the item is actually well researched and correct.
15:01 asciilifeform notbad.jpg
15:01 mircea_popescu quite instructive, too. as per that http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-10#1723583 observation, the absence of a connection between v. carpata and v. domitiana at either romula/tomis or apulum/istrus has a lot to do with there being such a thing as "moldavia"
15:01 a111 Logged on 2017-10-10 01:45 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
15:03 mircea_popescu whereas the via aurelia and its derivations to this day the basis of "european union".
15:03 mircea_popescu and so following.
15:04 asciilifeform ‘when you go by the via aurelia, ad thousands have traveled before, remember the luck of the soldier, who never saw rome any more...’
15:04 asciilifeform (kipling)
15:04 mircea_popescu also the ~best piece i ever read on russian post-soviet collapse : https://sashat.me/2017/05/28/will-moscow-ever-stop-growing/
15:05 asciilifeform ‘Legend has it that every civilization is given a certain number of saecula by the gods. The Romans lasted for 24 saecula, the Ancient Egyptians held on for 30.’
15:05 asciilifeform ( https://sashat.me/2017/07/27/in-saecula-saeculorum/ )
15:05 mircea_popescu is this by the old definition, seculum "until everyone present dies off" ?
15:05 mircea_popescu it is. heh.
15:06 asciilifeform aha
15:08 mircea_popescu basically, very strong signs of argentinization in the ex-soviet lands.
15:08 asciilifeform in what sense
15:09 mircea_popescu in the sense of ending up with a humongous buenos aires full of lazy parasites expecting to live off govt handouts and an entirely undevelopped interior of humonmgous size.
15:09 mircea_popescu argentina is like 2x the size of all europe. its internal development is comparable to the island of corfu.
15:09 mircea_popescu this "collapse into the capital" is major bad news.
15:10 asciilifeform ru is pipe-powered, not mega-seekrit
15:10 asciilifeform and recall thatcher’s formula.
15:10 mircea_popescu asciilifeform the reason you suspect "europe will grow back" is strictly because every 20 miles a church steeple. exactly like egypt's http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-23#1727932 but for richer people.
15:10 a111 Logged on 2017-10-23 17:41 mircea_popescu: AND throughout the egypt that i've seen, they to this day have clay pots with water in the shade every quarter mile or so on the road. notwithstanding that yes you can buy bottled water and did i share that pic of the desert dhl ?
15:11 mircea_popescu russia has no "a road within walking distance anywhere you walk". it should, to survive.
15:11 asciilifeform in ru, historically, culture == city
15:11 mircea_popescu except that city was leningrad.
15:12 asciilifeform from peter to lenin
15:12 mircea_popescu us had a similar dynamic, with the unwashed irish tards landing in ny to be shipped to fight against the south while the precious cuntlets were kept under wraps in boston.
15:13 asciilifeform but yes my understanding is that moscow is where western wreckerz dispense the bags of moolah; ergo growth ‘with yeast’. possibly phf can add detail.
15:13 mircea_popescu this is a bigger problem for putin than anything else.
15:13 mircea_popescu heck, getting the precious cuntlets to move to kazakstan was a major problem for everyone, stalin, khruschev, etc.
15:14 mircea_popescu afaik only trotsky sorta-managed, but too dumb to realise what he was doing or capitalize on it.
15:14 asciilifeform they tried double pay for the far east
15:15 asciilifeform asciilifeform’s father went, for a spell
15:15 mircea_popescu pay, as numerously discussed in teh forum, ain't the pill.
15:15 mircea_popescu romans used the more adequate neckchain. sorta-worked.
15:15 mircea_popescu notrly tho.
15:15 asciilifeform verily pay dunwork
15:16 mircea_popescu we have a similar problem in teh republic, at that. #trilema overgravity renders #castles impracticable yet.
15:16 asciilifeform castles?
15:16 mircea_popescu i expect there's going to be a lively THAT before there's any need of http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729223
15:16 a111 Logged on 2017-10-26 15:55 mircea_popescu: the truth of the matter however is that to a large degree fain was powered by the original web delusion, "oh, lowering barriers to human creativity is what economy is all about". it's not. there's no such thing as "human creativity" in the sense of the general mass, and the barriers are there to keep us from the female wail.
15:16 asciilifeform aaah like mod6’s
15:17 mircea_popescu asciilifeform you know, #asciilifeform #mod6 so on
15:17 mircea_popescu yes.
15:17 asciilifeform there isn’t , i suspect, even 1% of the people, or the traffic pressure yet
15:17 asciilifeform to make such a thing urgent itch
15:17 mircea_popescu but the similarity is there : we don't yet get that many rss links to need to build a more complicated pipe ; just as we don't yet get that many new speakers so as to need to build a skirt there either.
15:18 mircea_popescu asciilifeform yeah. there may never be, actually, seeing how the vast majority of those who stumble in are dumb in the classical sense, ie, mute.
15:18 asciilifeform i still find this a puzzle
15:18 mircea_popescu why ?
15:19 asciilifeform because typical idjit is a nevertiring chatterbox in meatspace
15:19 mircea_popescu typical idiot can't get in here much like typical lamb can't eat tatched roofing.
15:20 asciilifeform hm.
15:20 diana_coman mircea_popescu Bucharest is also some 6 times if not more the size of next town in ro, isn't it? not sure if that says much though in itself
15:21 mircea_popescu diana_coman depends how you count ; but in any meaningful sense bucharest is a minor player to cluj, brasov et co.
15:21 diana_coman asciilifeform, typical idiot *runs* like crazy away from here even if he somehow stumbles in for a second (he'll try hard not to though as it's cheaper on his own self-esteem and whatnot)
15:21 mircea_popescu the russian school of medicine is in moscow, see, not in kiev.
15:22 diana_coman mircea_popescu, eh now; by the same token as the maps: population+growth in population
15:22 mircea_popescu well now ima have to look at the demographic geography of it.
15:22 asciilifeform eh in su times plenty of dispersion, school of paratrooper was in kaunis, say
15:22 mircea_popescu ahahaha really, brasov is 250k ?
15:23 mircea_popescu dude the official romanian statistics are worthless.
15:23 diana_coman myeah, why I did not cite numbers
15:23 diana_coman because I looked and ...wtf!
15:23 mircea_popescu nuts.
15:23 mircea_popescu then again, these are the same people who couldn't produce a count of suines in the country
15:23 mircea_popescu (not privately held -- FARM HELD)
15:23 diana_coman well, remember I had to scrap the bac data and then the ministry statisticians were getting it on the sly from my blog?
15:24 mircea_popescu poor darlings.
15:24 diana_coman so then, official statistics in ro are worse than non-existant, what
15:24 diana_coman uhm, *whose* darlings again
15:24 diana_coman ?
15:24 mircea_popescu aaanyway. i hold that the situation is not similar in ru and ro ; neither the evolution / trends. but this will have to be as first hand word of god, because there's no better available.
15:25 mircea_popescu diana_coman it is said the lord of the jews has a special foible for idiots. at least so discovered the current (jesuit) pope.
15:25 diana_coman I don't know enough on RU to say much at that level really so...
15:29 asciilifeform and asciilifeform hasn’t even ~been~ to yeltsinized ru...
15:30 diana_coman in any case and fwiw since I happen to know this tidbit, gospodin Medvedev did open (and I don't mean cutting the red tape sort of open but rather pouring the money & bringing in people from abroad sort of open) tam-tam big uni and all that in Tatarstan some years ago already rather than next to Moscow and I seriously doubt it was *not* part of a wider-range development plan
15:30 mircea_popescu im sure htey're trying.
15:30 mircea_popescu the chinese are also trying, what with their empty towns and whatnot.
15:30 mircea_popescu contrary to the socialist delusions, papica is not the pill.
15:32 asciilifeform ro is blessed with a capital that nobody wants to live in because hat man wrecked it and filled with hruschebas
15:32 mircea_popescu this is not exactly so. the extremely snot-nosed transylvanians didn't want to move there in 1850, either.
15:33 mircea_popescu and the moldavians even put it in writing, "shit-eating faces like they eat nothing but fungus". also cca 1850.
15:34 asciilifeform interesting
15:34 mircea_popescu during the communist time, the "repartitie" (approx, warrant) was a major instrument of social control. basically : to dwell anywhere, you had to get a job there. to get the job, you had to a) go to school and then, be ... sent to it, ie "destined", repartizat.
15:35 mircea_popescu these were an important item therefore, and obviously urban such sought in preference of rural. except, in general people from cluj wanted one in cluj or else you know, turda, rather than the (nominally, at least) more valuable bucharest one.
15:36 mircea_popescu so in this sense there's a ready measure, in the proper-est term : the black market value of the country capital warrant was under the black market value of the local capital warrant in most places.
15:37 mircea_popescu not so in southern moldavia ; rural dobrogea ; eastern old kingdom (oltenia etc). which is how bucharest ended up massively overrepresenting the olteni (ceausescu himself was from a village there)
15:37 diana_coman mircea_popescu, locals wanted local, what
15:37 mircea_popescu diana_coman aha.
15:37 diana_coman I don't really know of someone from Bucharest who wanted Cluj either
15:38 diana_coman or Iasi or Constanta even
15:38 mircea_popescu 90s brought a lot of georgians into moscwo, but this very unrelatedly to stalin's patrilinearity, i suspect.
15:38 mircea_popescu diana_coman amusingly, they rarely got them, either. they got rural shitholes a la you know, georghe-gheorghiu-dej or vulcan or w/e the fuck jewels of socialism that no longer exist.
15:39 diana_coman well, as far as I know from older people it was mainly either permanent rural shithole or otherwise shitty temporary mini-jobs in some town
15:39 mircea_popescu (they also got dar-al-salaam and so on, of course, tirgoviste ended up shipped there as engineers much in the way rahovei got exported to afghanistan a coupla decades later)
15:39 diana_coman obv,unless pcr to move to town in max 2 years or something
15:39 mircea_popescu myeah.
15:40 diana_coman onth there were pockets of "I'll hold onto whatever good engineers I get" a la IAR ghimbav
15:40 diana_coman for as long as there was a person who did precisely that
15:41 mircea_popescu yes. there were strong attractors, the kalash factory, the cluj/bucharest/brasov/iassi ITCs etc.
15:43 mircea_popescu the bucharest "bourgeois economic studies" thing, there's a dozen or so.
~ 1 hours 18 minutes ~
17:01 BingoBoingo Oh my, much lawgs and numbers to digest this evening
17:13 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729571 << same as ye olde su
17:13 a111 Logged on 2017-10-26 19:34 mircea_popescu: during the communist time, the "repartitie" (approx, warrant) was a major instrument of social control. basically : to dwell anywhere, you had to get a job there. to get the job, you had to a) go to school and then, be ... sent to it, ie "destined", repartizat.
17:28 BingoBoingo <mircea_popescu> the chinese are also trying, what with their empty towns and whatnot. << Oh, China just held a big presser on Sinicizing region and Make Asia China Again
17:30 BingoBoingo and Making Asia China Again means those weird extremist gentile followers of the late Jew King are a national security threat
17:34 ben_vulpes > the substantive point is that we do not, at present, have a theory of inflation dynamics that works sufficiently well to be of use for the business of real-time monetary policy-making
17:34 ben_vulpes awwww, it's hard, isn't it.
17:35 ben_vulpes http://ritholtz.com/2017/10/monetary-policy-without-working-theory-inflation/
17:39 asciilifeform for so long as it is verboten to include the screamingly obvious printolade-via-fractionalreserve thing, yes, can have as many epicycles as they feel like
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18:01 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: No idea
18:02 BingoBoingo Ou, Nao sei
18:03 AndreaGuzman BingoBoingo: yo soy http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ilasxve.png
18:03 AndreaGuzman dijo shinohai que debo registrame un clave ;)
18:03 BingoBoingo AHA!
18:03 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i expect, yeah.
18:04 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729594 << "we don't at this point have a sufficiently palatable whitewash of inflation ; or for that matter even any statement that doesn't reduce to how the best course would be for us to eat shit and die. so in preference of that, we'll just pretend ignorance, because such a course totally works and everything".
18:04 a111 Logged on 2017-10-26 21:34 ben_vulpes: > the substantive point is that we do not, at present, have a theory of inflation dynamics that works sufficiently well to be of use for the business of real-time monetary policy-making
18:05 mircea_popescu there, fift.
18:06 BingoBoingo !~ticker --market all
18:06 jhvh1 BingoBoingo: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 5788.4, vol: 11836.49623552 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 5798.4, vol: 43443.34984547 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 5810.0, vol: 3954.16474369 | Volume-weighted last average: 5797.17609754
18:06 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo fwiw, a ro corp is about 80 bux or such. wtf 800 dollars to open a corp in brazil, what do they take themselves for ?
18:06 mircea_popescu us can do it for ~100, brazil is special ?
18:07 AndreaGuzman wau tanto para Bitcoin
18:07 asciilifeform re information, see also sacramental http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729289
18:07 a111 Logged on 2017-10-26 16:24 mircea_popescu: diana_coman in this vein was lulzy thing at lesbian club, chick is "i have no idea why i'm getting so drunk ?!?" "you keep drinking" "what ?! it suddenly hit me like... wtf." "you keep drinking." "what do you mean ?"
18:07 mircea_popescu AndreaGuzman that's the low price.
18:08 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Apparently rainforest and language protection.
18:08 mircea_popescu !!rate AndreaGuzman 1 if she breaks anything, send shinohai the bill :D
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18:10 mircea_popescu AndreaGuzman como te gustan los eeuu ?
18:14 BingoBoingo !~bcstats
18:14 jhvh1 BingoBoingo: Current Blocks: 491925 | Current Difficulty: 1.452839779145E12 | Next Difficulty At Block: 493919 | Next Difficulty In: 1994 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 3 days, 6 hours, 21 minutes, and 2 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: None | Estimated Percent Change: None
18:15 AndreaGuzman ya tengo clave dame Bitcoin shinohai :P
18:15 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729628 << i expect more a case of english speaking mortodifame imagines he's white because nobody told him otherwise.
18:15 a111 Logged on 2017-10-26 22:08 BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Apparently rainforest and language protection.
18:16 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Hey, gotta keep spanish language from absorbokilling Portugues language
18:16 mircea_popescu meanwhile @ campus rape culture, http://78.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6b6sxncB41rwj23jo1_1280.jpg
18:17 asciilifeform mm delish
18:17 AndreaGuzman ay mis novias!
18:17 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo 0 chances of that. off the entire continent, the only functional sovereign is brazil. the whole rest of spanish speaking dorks can barely sum together to 2/3 of ye olde kingdom
18:20 BingoBoingo Well, it is an attraction. Lumped together with India, China, and Russia as BRIC. Seems a strong winner on the not NATO front.
18:21 mircea_popescu conceivably, yes.
18:21 mircea_popescu anyway, who's your source for "company costs 800, visa costs 1200" etc ?
18:22 asciilifeform lolwat that's outrageous
18:23 asciilifeform hey BingoBoingo is brazil signatory to the obummer tax stoolie treaty ?
18:23 * asciilifeform would bet that it was
18:24 mircea_popescu and in perhaps oldest pantsuit lulz : ludwig of bavaria was a king, who constructed most of what today attracts the tourists there. as he at some point decided to get rid of his inept cabinet, the ministers got together, bribed a bunch of servants, and came up with a lengthy list of gossip ; on the basis of which, a very "respectable" conclave of four "experts" from the stanford princeton and yale of the time (munich insane a
18:24 mircea_popescu sylum director, that guy's son in law, etc) declared that the king has paranoia and "his freedom of action can no longer be allowed" and this is permanent, because they say so.
18:25 mircea_popescu 1886, make bavaria great again.
18:26 asciilifeform or recall when gorby was 'unwell' ?
18:26 mircea_popescu amusingly, the schmucks also had the audacity to go over to neuschwanstein, "inform" the king of their "document". because totally, that's how it works.
18:26 mircea_popescu king had them sent off at gunpoint rather than you know, flayed alive and exposed on the south wall, as customary.
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18:29 mircea_popescu wut is a bn ?
18:30 shinohai oops, ill redo
18:30 shinohai i meant bnc *
18:31 mircea_popescu anyway ; the adventure of ludwig otto friedrich wilhelm, king and duke of bavaria, duke of franconia and swabia, count palatine of teh rhine is well informative. popular monarch, unwilling to flay pantsuit alive, "died mysteriously".
18:31 shinohai !!rate AndreaGuzman 1 first bnc customer, longtime friend.
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18:33 trinque shinohai: selling IRC bouncer hosting?
18:33 asciilifeform still unclear to me how a properly reigning king can be committed to asylum
18:33 shinohai !!v 020D8E28AFEA16F04B5CD1A8AC534354F5145E93D9B701A8FE2B16EC42F82B0F
18:33 deedbot shinohai rated AndreaGuzman 1 << first bnc customer, longtime friend.
18:33 mircea_popescu asciilifeform he failed to order the national guard to fire upon the parliament, in modern soviet terms.
18:33 asciilifeform ( who dragged him away? why his retainers not replied with rifles )
18:33 asciilifeform aaaaa
18:34 asciilifeform immediately makessense.
18:34 mircea_popescu impossible to defend king who doesn't order the death of the pantsuit. kinda how trump lost, by not having clinton kidnapped and jailed in afghanistan.
18:34 mircea_popescu "oh, nyt wants to save her ? let them. let's see what wordcount is necessary per kilo."
18:35 mircea_popescu sister question to "what qty of bishop-hour prayer is required to lift airplane per thousand feet".
18:35 asciilifeform oh hey wasn't this in the ceaucescu thread also earlier
18:35 mircea_popescu i expect it's recurring universally, it being the universal clou.
18:41 BingoBoingo <mircea_popescu> anyway, who's your source for "company costs 800, visa costs 1200" etc ? << "Valet" service for incorporate and move called "Establish Brazil"
18:42 mircea_popescu exact equivalent of "hosting" services.
18:42 mircea_popescu not useful.
18:42 BingoBoingo Provides metric for evaluating lawyers and accountant quotes.
18:43 asciilifeform spamexpert will happily tack on extra zero or 2 and not necessarily even attempt the work per se
18:44 BingoBoingo And so will rando lawyer when presented a gringo
18:45 mircea_popescu generally not attempt any work whatsoever. fine example would be http://trilema.com/2010/aventurile-zilei/#selection-49.0-61.94
18:45 mircea_popescu plox to not employ "experts" not qualified beyond whoredom to anything else.
18:45 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo gringoness dun enter into it. case linked -- me, ie romanian, in romania.
18:47 mircea_popescu exactly like the busbrothel, containing whores who are willing for you to pay as much as they say for them to do what they think they should, the female herd contains all sorts of other busses. the bus-lawyer, the bus-wife, the whatever else.
18:47 mircea_popescu efficient obedience does not come naturally to the peonry.
18:48 mircea_popescu possibly the most annoying version in the usg lands is the bus-doctor. he'll tell you what to pay and he klnows what to do. and he's never heard the salutary "bitch, say what ?" in his lyf.
18:49 asciilifeform ^ endemic
18:50 asciilifeform try getting a uterus keychain installed in a chix in usa, meet dozen of these types
18:51 asciilifeform they're not, however, dropped by martians, no: they are parasitic on bovine clientelle
18:52 asciilifeform who willingly go along
18:52 mircea_popescu mno, they're resultant of female state. come at the other end.
18:53 mircea_popescu yes, bovine clientele puts up with it ; but this because they don't beat their wife and her children into shape, so the neglected sfortunati end up building the cheloid in the first place.
18:53 mircea_popescu then that cheloid gets infected with "experts".
18:54 mircea_popescu extra obedientia nulla salus! origen tends to misspell things.
19:02 BingoBoingo Anyways, the impression is that "Establish Brazil" exists to let the Roger Vers play at Rio beach by ordering from menu. Actual lawyer selection will require their presence in Paulista neighborhood and acting as lawyers.
19:03 mircea_popescu anyway, back to the german lands lulz : the item in http://trilema.com/2017/jud-suss/ can be identified specifically ; but is also a composite of many different historical personages. one of which is a certain Moritz von Haber, a jew & banker who "was accused" by the local pantsuits of "too much influence", ended up shooting a bunch of the tards in a series of duels, including jorge von lasollaye and various others.
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20:43 hanbot <mircea_popescu> yes. the place you describe, btw, is prolly "bad curtain" mentioned afore. << badea cartan was indeed pretty satisfying. except for that one time i went to the fish shop on a blazing afternoon and found the attendant woman eating a rather underdone softboiled egg with a tiny spoon behind the buckets of crap and icre crap and experienced an acute tactile-olfactory horror
20:43 mircea_popescu lol
20:46 mircea_popescu in other summers, http://78.media.tumblr.com/e835647c7daf9a5c345a3b5037670a32/tumblr_nmyyxaboIf1tid18xo1_1280.jpg
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22:23 BingoBoingo In other copypast from the mines http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/Ih5fb/?raw=true
~ 42 minutes ~
23:05 mircea_popescu in other great usg victories against isis & co, "there was another team in the same area as the platoon ambushed in niger".
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