BingoBoingo: Eh, there's no drunk worse than a dry drunk
BingoBoingo: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-27#1729713 << This is probably least healthy thing to be doing unless storing fuel for next "burn the ships on touching shore" move. The sorta resentments probable on returning to the big prison sound a lot like how people get lost in bottles.
mircea_popescu: aand in other big data paintings, http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/comms-chart-2.png
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-28#1730101 << ftr, the canonical form is yolk only, no white no milk no nothing.
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: (help [<plugin>] [<command>]) -- This command gives a useful description of what <command> does. <plugin> is only necessary if the command is in more than one plugin. You may also want to use the 'list' command to list all available plugins and commands.
BingoBoingo: <trinque> lol what, like someone's browser cache is doing as they click? << What's "browser cache" is it like BTC Crash?
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, tis a delicate operation and im not sure we have spare patients.
mircea_popescu: there is merit to this view.
trinque: communist megastate fucktards throughout the entire extant internet, because no one ever dies on field. who could tell; we're all fungible.
trinque: gotta cleave the "$he said $fact" from "there is this silo which is the only source of $fact"
trinque: I am and have been preoccupied with, respectfully, the mike_c problem.
mircea_popescu: i mean disqus, the spammy comment shit.
mircea_popescu: so i always imagined that to plug web ie blogs such as trilema into gossipd, what'd happen would be that i'd announce what the article is and what the comments were.
mircea_popescu: the reason i didn't start the gossipd discussion with trilema specifically has to do with the comments problem. which is : there's some implicit authority-and-authorship play wrt comments, as reader is more interested in mp's idea of what comments were than in random spew, and by a large factor.
trinque: your comments section would not be hosted by you, but would rather be comprised of a marker which says "here be statements others made about $currentDoc"
trinque: take a particular trilema article, your node announces that there is a new $string which resolves to $hash and your node signed the fact
trinque: current web flowing over the thing wouldn't look much different from that; however, things *built* for the model would be parceled differently.
trinque: and yep, derives directly from notions being formed in the gossipd threads
trinque: hopefully you know good joes, otherwise browse rando's hashes on burner box
trinque: just like the current www
mod6: heh, 'spangle the log'
a111: Logged on 2017-10-27 23:11 trinque: trilema in the model has a key, chatters to peers when something is published. peers retain or dont as their node is set, allow others to connect to retrieve items or dont as idem.
mircea_popescu: the great advantage of current archival mechanism is that it powerwashes the targets.
trinque: anybody recall directconnect? probably closer to what the thing oughta look like than say gnutella, but with a hierarchy of nodes instead of connecting to one station.
trinque: trilema in the model has a key, chatters to peers when something is published. peers retain or dont as their node is set, allow others to connect to retrieve items or dont as idem.
trinque: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-27#1730028 << same as the kids used for mp3s and tv, but with signed material published by known nodes
mircea_popescu: i suspect that contrary to what operator-minded examiner might wish to believe, the limit is the operator not the economics.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-27 22:09 asciilifeform: so long as they don't tear hair out when it becomes clear that no, you can't charge for sunlight
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-27#1729970 << this is an altogether dubious point. magnolia went south IN SPITE of paying customers, through operator ineptitude.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-25 02:39 deedbot: http://thewhet.net/2017/10/a-compendium-of-possibly-helpful-stuffs-for-erecting-mircea-popescus-wordpress-with-nearly-free-speech-hosting/ << The Whet - A Compendium of Possibly Helpful Stuffs for Erecting Mircea Popescu's WordPress with Nearly Free Speech Hosting
a111: Logged on 2017-10-27 05:30 deedbot: http://thewhet.net/2017/10/wellington-schmellington/ << The Whet - Wellington Schmellington
mircea_popescu: wrt to scriba's archiving : it appears to be on now, and working since yesterday (26th). it did not work in the interval 10-25 october ; nor in the interval 2-8 october (limits included). so it for instance included http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-27#1729704 but not http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1728494 and so following.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-27 20:31 mod6 jaywalks all the time
mircea_popescu: the only problem in all this is that i'm not willing to put "use archive.is" into the logger spec ; nor am i willing to go "write html-decrufter or die". so... we're FOSSing about.
mircea_popescu: between logotrons that reliably maintain the archive.is produced zips of any linked pages and a service which spits out text versions of pdfs (and youtube videos etc), to be also archived, we'd actually have a complete solution
trinque: sure, separate items. I was attacking the price and that which was priced.
mircea_popescu: thatg aside, the more pressing problem is that we don't have a proper pdf-decrufter, (random moron with delusions of self-impoirtance failed to be useful, as you prolly recall), and if we're going to do something by hand this'd be more sorely needed than that.
mircea_popescu: the principal impediment to republican logging, atm, is that nobod yucan be arsed to write a html de-fucker ; there is one already written, by the archive.is dood, which spits out zips. the solutions then are either a) piggyback on that, which alf has (irresponsibly) been trying to obstruct throughout, and in the laughablest of manners or else b) make own, which will without exception require making own, and RIGHT NOW, not "n
mircea_popescu: trinque idea being that there's a necessary and natural cut between log matter and linked matter.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-27#1729964 << except you do, because you've seen the person that knows how to resolve it resolve it.
trinque: lol what, like someone's browser cache is doing as they click?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-27#1729959 << oh, preserve what we say AND ALSO the links ? and what else ? how about the girls, preserve all of them the age they were so we can revisit when we're old, the girls we loved as if they're 16!
mircea_popescu: ah there we go, http://trilema.com/2013/a-deal-can-be-anything/#selection-27.0-27.105 "I am here from couple of years and have good knowledge on how to promote a coin in a big way (like DOGE)."
a111: Logged on 2017-10-27 21:45 shinohai: he redid the voorhees paid 2 tweet pyramid scheme
mircea_popescu: which is exactly the opposite of useful work.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-14 16:53 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-14#1683501 >> that is the link in question, yes. it's be tremendously useful if it also had a copy of http://archive.is/download/nQLP9.zip stored somewhere.
a111: Logged on 2017-01-08 04:28 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-08#1598955 << just download the fucking archive.is archive zips already omygerd.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 22:10 mircea_popescu: i suppose one thing we could do is change how a111 works so that on every outbout link posted here it a) makes an archive.is copy of thje page ; b) downloads the corresponding zip
mod6: and it was pretty nifty that it had archived all of the pastes.
mod6: i did this recently when looking at the rsa thing that happened back in like august of '15
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: (ticker [--bid|--ask|--last|--high|--low|--avg|--vol] [--currency XXX] [--market <market>|all]) -- Return pretty-printed ticker. Default market is Bitfinex. If one of the result options is given, returns only that numeric result (useful for nesting in calculations). If '--currency XXX' option is given, returns ticker for that three-letter currency code. It is up to you to make sure the code is a valid (1 more message)
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Error: The "Market" plugin is loaded, but there is no command named "all" in it. Try "list Market" to see the commands in the "Market" plugin.
trinque: mircea_popescu: no, unless he didn't bother to tell me.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for actually fetching the zip
asciilifeform: ( 'i then loaded that one very special tape' )
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform pulling the who ? what ?
a111: Logged on 2017-10-27 21:25 trinque: while we're doing these, http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-27#1729743 is apparently "too lazy" (in teen girl vocal fry) to http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726508
asciilifeform: sooo apparently 0 demand for pulling the backups to date , lol
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-27#1729900 << why not do the thing scriba was doing originally, put in archive.is and save the zips ?
asciilifeform: so long as they don't tear hair out when it becomes clear that no, you can't charge for sunlight
trinque: still not bad for folks to cause themselves problems by doing things.
trinque: it's why I said price access to archive, but then wtf is that too, can copy while access is had
asciilifeform: how the hell would one price a promise to archive 4evah tho.
trinque: not that I fault a guy wanting to charge people for the use of his bot, obviously
trinque: so then, subscription might be to a particular logotron. and hard to price those given that the market has ample, usable free
trinque: though what happens when someone unsubscribes, archive is gone? doesn't serve the logs very well
shinohai: he redid the voorhees paid 2 tweet pyramid scheme
mod6: so, yeah, perhaps come up with a plan, and hand it in to the foundation, and we'll consider.
asciilifeform: if i want something stowed on some heathenisp rando box, i can bloodywell rent one and upload it ~myself~
mod6: much like, I stuck a bunch of dependant files in deedbot. that obviously is probably not the best way to do that.
asciilifeform: ( this is a properly a subset of the isp discussion. )
mod6: like... if I want to stick a porn movie in the archive... sure, i should be able to pay some nominal fee perhaps.
asciilifeform: i won't pay for the familiar best-effort nonsense.
mod6: ben_vulpes: thoughts? if given a proposal on this that is a resonable, should the foundation consider?
mod6: if it comes down to cash to get the drives and set up the stuff, maybe the foundation can support that.
mod6: so, maybe a drive that grabs the pastes, and links and stores them somehow. then make another that backs up the first.
asciilifeform: reminds of scene in the riotously bad 'atlas shrugged' novel where 'mega millionaires' charge each other gold dubloons in their seekrit hideout for borrowing a cig
jhvh1: Thank you, your link will be available in the /archive/ mirror shortly! You will be invoiced 0.00025 BTC for this transaction via deedbot.
shinohai: !~archive http://thebitcoin.foundation/
a111: Logged on 2017-10-19 01:18 trinque: just give me the same key but without the idiot expiration field
trinque: while we're doing these, http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-27#1729743 is apparently "too lazy" (in teen girl vocal fry) to http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1726508
ben_vulpes: seductive song of the biofilm
a111: Logged on 2014-03-05 18:32 asciilifeform: '... courtroom recording showed that the last verse of the multiplicand was, as witnesses had claimed, sung in unison by the beautiful young fork.'
mod6: archive the pastes?
mod6 jaywalks all the time
asciilifeform: the jaywalking point is exactly troo, and was beginning to form in asciilifeform's head when he signed up for $mission
a111: Logged on 2014-03-05 02:05 asciilifeform: 'american does not believe the man in the uniform to be a bandit, with whom one can come to an understanding. he believes him to be a robot, who must be feared. american law enforcers are able to, by pressing on the keyboard of a multitude of laws and regulations, 'transmute' the most insignificant peccadillo into a monstrous deed. FBI did not need to beat up Monica or toss into her purse heroin or ammunition.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-27 20:18 mircea_popescu: because the enemy purports to a "dispassionate" which is to say batshit insane "application of justice", random woman like say monica lewinsky can go to jail ~forever for ANYTHING. such as you know, "having not told some nosy bureaucrats whatever detail of her own god damned private sex life".
mircea_popescu: worst fucking thing you can do is allow this reduction-to-centrality, "only present the core of the argument cuz branches are just as dangerous but not as relevant" sorta nonsense.
a111: Logged on 2015-01-30 05:51 mircea_popescu: which is why i am not ever giving it up. the freedom to threaten is not merely my fundamental, unassailable sovereign property, but moreover essential for the construction of effectual instruments to squash the socialists and their golums.
mircea_popescu: this is exactly the idiotic "make it count" argument. and it should be obvious that ALL IT DOES is a) actually enact the "less important" enemy nonsense, such as "jaywalking laws" and b) fundamentally corrupt the republican opposition, because if you won't naturally jaywalk, hoiw would you naturally shoot obama in the face ? one needs the other, like tree needs roots.
mircea_popescu: this then creates in the republic a pressure : since you might as well go to jail for jaywalking, DO NOT jaywalk, "because you have more important things to do" and "it'd be a pity to end up hanged for jaywalking".
mircea_popescu: because the enemy purports to a "dispassionate" which is to say batshit insane "application of justice", random woman like say monica lewinsky can go to jail ~forever for ANYTHING. such as you know, "having not told some nosy bureaucrats whatever detail of her own god damned private sex life".
mircea_popescu: you understand how the centrality pressure works ?
asciilifeform: prolly moar exciting by long shot than the reality.
asciilifeform: it will be entertaining to see the particular deed asciilifeform is hanged for , for inatance
asciilifeform: and also that there dun have to be any relation b/w the charges against d00d, and reality
mircea_popescu: i don't get it either, nor am i an expert in the matter. but still, shitty story is unpersuasive.
mircea_popescu: the faits d'armes of brave duellists who don't know what a foil is and how handguards work or why ain't.
mircea_popescu: virgin boy's wet dreams work exactly like adult's, BUT, importantly, they lack any representation of the vulva. because he's never seen one. if all he's seen is his mom's boob the succubi will show him boobs and he'll cream ; if he's once seen a slit, his succubi will have slits, but no clits. and so following.
mircea_popescu: about as credit-worthy as the average 16yos recounting of his sexually amorous exploits.
mircea_popescu: eh, random wankery of old men at the chestnut tree.
mircea_popescu: i don't credit the story as told.
asciilifeform: roventiu by all indications ~would~ have perforated he shoemaker, if the latter had not buttoned up in bunker, shittings pants over missing kalash
asciilifeform: then sat for 20y
mircea_popescu: further research turns out it was actually godard, so now i need it ;/
mircea_popescu: here's a question for the ages : i put on trilema at some point a photochop depicting this slightly fat, mongoloid teenaged male smiling proudly next to a taller babe that he had ms-pain drawn his arms around.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> because one of the advantages of harem is that it'll be someone's bday nigh on every month ; and female slaves means ima be awake before them. ha-HAaaaa! << Wonderful
asciilifeform: and that they translate well, i suspect, into ru
mircea_popescu: be all you can be, yes ; protect your ass as far as it can be, sure. BUT NO FURTHER. as far as it can be and no further! and don't go around pretending like anything's just as good as anything else, either.
ben_vulpes: "Someone blessed with enough ability so as to recognize the superior qualities in the chosen by the Fates as our hero here present, but who carries neither the sweet delusion of recognizing the same in himself, nor ..."
mircea_popescu: it's the dispositive final word on fate.
asciilifeform: socialism ~extincted the earnestly servile sort of man , seems
mircea_popescu: the whore who dares pretend as if she doesn't owe the soldier her cunt, but rather, she... "has her own mind" and "her own options" and whatnot else.
mircea_popescu: what's it is the pretense to equality, the proposition that "no theorems is as good as any theorems", the "i know, i'll prototype bitcoin on windows, it's an os too" and so following.
asciilifeform: 'those who are happy to sit in the swamp'
mircea_popescu: anyway, no theorems isn't it. there's that famous case of my driver whom my mother (who was bumming a ride) asked in shock why'd he'd go around playing valet for a 17yo. he said something like "not everyone's a big deal". man had 0 theorems to prove, but also didn't go around deluding himself on the matter.
asciilifeform: oh hey btw lenin had a discussion of these, in his 'wat do' piece
mircea_popescu: in the sense of "i have the freedom to make my own choices ; and they'll be informed by my diminutive stature"
mircea_popescu: in the sense of "small independent lord-in-his-own-mind with no wot links".
mircea_popescu: no, in the sense of
mircea_popescu: because yes, the item existed. heck, it's noted for the year 1880, and for all previous decades.
mircea_popescu: to survive the public harassment.
mircea_popescu: what i care about is all the 50 trillion anodyne "concerned citizens" that got the gestapo so flooded with emails it had to get an unlisted number
mircea_popescu: but in no case do i care about stalin's statistics. so he killed 50 trillion imbeciles ? good for him ; if they didn't suck so bad they'd still be around.
asciilifeform: well expanding into 'cans' and 'shoulds' and hey play the tuba even if you never learned how etc currently
mircea_popescu: and the answer fucking better be something other than "because i carefully stuck to the walls"
mircea_popescu: the question any 70yo has to answer, and CAN NOT escape anymore than 20yo can escape the draft or the call of the streetgirl, is "why didn't you die".
mircea_popescu: there is however a culture without petit bourgeois old folks.
asciilifeform: there's not a culture without old folx
mircea_popescu: the only oranges this scum grows on live in neglected orange groves.
mircea_popescu: when they were young they did "good enough" trucks and software, and when they're old they do "good enough" culture.
mircea_popescu: the 80% scum.
mircea_popescu: the petit bourgeois buying britney spears records because they're "like" toscanini and unlike that, they're what he can afford.
davout: my personal interactions with old accountants were mostly along the lines of "no, you can't do this"
mircea_popescu: yes. little men "just trying to get by" because "they have a family to support".
mircea_popescu: old accountants and old housewives are the only enemy mankind ever knew.
asciilifeform: or even for the shoemaker
mircea_popescu: something in the lines of "oh, little people were great, and little things were great, it's just the great people (pars pro toto, ceausescu) that were bad".
mircea_popescu: ie, an (unreferenced, because they're cocksuckers aka "people themselves") attempt to answer to http://trilema.com/2010/vina-batranilor/
a111: Logged on 2017-06-14 15:42 mircea_popescu: so i was gonna quote this story with my grandfather regretting the time of stalin, except apparently it;'s not in the log ? and there's even attempts to find the shit, like http://btcbase.org/log/2016-03-15#1433159
mircea_popescu: the intention is deliberately never stated with these things, but the reasonable guess would be more in the vein of http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-14#1670353
asciilifeform: it was great tho, all the things i liked and wantd in childhood, even phoods ( in photos ), were in there
asciilifeform: strangest find of asciilifeform's inside 'communist konsoomer' museum is prolly the plastic goban and b00k of pretty serious go problemz
mircea_popescu: "where would you like to take them out of, not like they grow inside goats or on trees or something"
mircea_popescu recalls olden days when whatever group of 14-15yo westerners joined in for a tour of the cluj chocolate factory (feleacul).
davout: asciilifeform: go ahead, i'm more than ready for another chapter of "alfie and the chocolate factory"
mircea_popescu: mother nature's fulla unearned male priviledges.
mircea_popescu: because one of the advantages of harem is that it'll be someone's bday nigh on every month ; and female slaves means ima be awake before them. ha-HAaaaa!
a111: Logged on 2017-10-27 16:47 BingoBoingo: And in other news, today is 2nd anniversary of BingoBoingo's first AA meeting. Cake will be later.
mircea_popescu: is this more of the same "i do not approve of mp, because i'm fucked in the head enough to imagine there my be such a thing as my approval of mp ?"
ben_vulpes: christ, erlehmann wouldja quit it with the join/part spam
mircea_popescu: i full on suspect 50% or more of all the "work" engaged in at the offices of the various silicon-valley "building the future" "entrepreneurial" pieces of shit consists on repeatedly clicking "try again" on those old dos "general failure" error prompts.
mircea_popescu: does the endless stream of 46 byte error messages do anything ? like in the vein of cracking us in the skull? no ?!?! THEN CONTINUE!!!
mircea_popescu: this burns 10-20-50gb worth of BW before the lazy ass imbecile "hacker" notices and turns it off.
mircea_popescu: now and again i ban them (which results in attempts returning soft 404s, which is trilema pages, at a cost of 100kb+- per attempt)
mircea_popescu: they will try mns of times, 5-10-20 a second, because 0 interest in anything.
mircea_popescu: trilema has been a mindblowing exercise in "common man use of internet". EVERY fucking month a new botnet attempts to co-opt it into the totally-fucking-genius idea of ddos-by-wordpress. yes, that ancient hole published on trilema yuears ago, still unfixed.
BingoBoingo: And in other news, today is 2nd anniversary of BingoBoingo's first AA meeting. Cake will be later.
mircea_popescu: basically, a vast majority of weblink remoras are simply wordpress / etc spambots trying to find the xmlrpc.php on kiwiirc.com
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Consider alternate income streams like taping cheese and wurst to groin then smuggling into US?
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz, "Young Ukrainian woman with excellent command of English and previous experience of Britain wishes to serve a woman or couple in the UK. Little previous experience of BDSM but very submissive and obedient."
mircea_popescu: as to moscow, the new tsar has exafctly the problems of the old ones. problems tend to outlive tsars.
mircea_popescu: but anyway. the czechs had it even ebtter than teh romanians and so following.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's some east/west differences, but yes. not just your father either, iirc i mentioned ro army general who was like "what did you think, i'd desert to moscow ? they're more fucked than we are"
asciilifeform: btw mircea_popescu , my father was right, you lot had better gear than we did
asciilifeform currently sitting in ‘museum of communist konsoomer’, playing with toys of his childhood, reading various ro equivs of наука и жизнь , guides to e.g. female hygiene (i shit thee not), engineering , misc vintage
mircea_popescu: that was last year. meanwhile some of teh organized-criminals got convicted to 3-5 years, and some of the liberated-victims killed their father.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz : slavekeeping gypos!!! http://stirileprotv.ro/stiri/actualitate/batuti-cu-biciul-si-obligati-sa-cerseasca-perchezitii-in-arges-dupa-ce-mai-multi-indivizi-ar-fi-rapit-40-de-persoane.html
deedbot: http://thewhet.net/2017/10/wellington-schmellington/ << The Whet - Wellington Schmellington
mircea_popescu: in other great usg victories against isis & co, "there was another team in the same area as the platoon ambushed in niger".
BingoBoingo: In other copypast from the mines http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/Ih5fb/?raw=true
mircea_popescu: in other summers, http://78.media.tumblr.com/e835647c7daf9a5c345a3b5037670a32/tumblr_nmyyxaboIf1tid18xo1_1280.jpg
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
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.
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.
mircea_popescu: then that cheloid gets infected with "experts".
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.
asciilifeform: they're not, however, dropped by martians, no: they are parasitic on bovine clientelle
asciilifeform: try getting a uterus keychain installed in a chix in usa, meet dozen of these types
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.
mircea_popescu: efficient obedience does not come naturally to the peonry.
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.
asciilifeform: spamexpert will happily tack on extra zero or 2 and not necessarily even attempt the work per se
mircea_popescu: i expect it's recurring universally, it being the universal clou.
asciilifeform: oh hey wasn't this in the ceaucescu thread also earlier
mircea_popescu: "oh, nyt wants to save her ? let them. let's see what wordcount is necessary per kilo."
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.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he failed to order the national guard to fire upon the parliament, in modern soviet terms.
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".
mircea_popescu: king had them sent off at gunpoint rather than you know, flayed alive and exposed on the south wall, as customary.
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.
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.
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
asciilifeform: hey BingoBoingo is brazil signatory to the obummer tax stoolie treaty ?
BingoBoingo: Well, it is an attraction. Lumped together with India, China, and Russia as BRIC. Seems a strong winner on the not NATO front.
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
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.
mircea_popescu: !!rate AndreaGuzman 1 if she breaks anything, send shinohai the bill :D
mircea_popescu: AndreaGuzman that's the low price.
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 ?
mircea_popescu: there, fift.
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
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".
BingoBoingo: And here are numbers from the red tape concierge service: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/maXM2/?raw=true
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
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
BingoBoingo: and Making Asia China Again means those weird extremist gentile followers of the late Jew King are a national security threat
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
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.
mircea_popescu: yes. there were strong attractors, the kalash factory, the cluj/bucharest/brasov/iassi ITCs etc.
diana_coman: for as long as there was a person who did precisely that
diana_coman: onth there were pockets of "I'll hold onto whatever good engineers I get" a la IAR ghimbav
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)
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
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.
diana_coman: I don't really know of someone from Bucharest who wanted Cluj either
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)
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.
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.
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.
mircea_popescu: and the moldavians even put it in writing, "shit-eating faces like they eat nothing but fungus". also cca 1850.
mircea_popescu: this is not exactly so. the extremely snot-nosed transylvanians didn't want to move there in 1850, either.
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
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.
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.
diana_coman: so then, official statistics in ro are worse than non-existant, what
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?
mircea_popescu: then again, these are the same people who couldn't produce a count of suines in the country