pete_dushenski: subies are kinda hollow feeling on the highway
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: the 350z was a better highway car by far. effortless 6th gear hauling. fit 2 sets of golf clubs.
BingoBoingo wonders how long Coinroll contributed to his VAN pool, you know the /. traffic is big 24 hours tapers next 24 and returns to "normal" day 3 if previous experiences are informative
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> buffett's nobel prize >> might wanna check out what happened to nobel prize in past 50y or so << Maybe the point of fiat and inflation was to turn the Nobel reward into a "blue ribbon" at the science fair
mircea_popescu: where's the "we can't do this because buffett says it's stupid" policy discussion ?
ben_vulpes: <pete_dushenski> that convinced me they were too fragile and i ended up with a 350z for a few years << how was it? >? new subies?
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> chomskis and whatnot "brahmins" has produced exactly 0 cultural output >> does an arsonist contribute to a city ? << Oftentimes. StL Brick theives have contributed tremendously to Atlanta suburbs, and Florida.
asciilifeform: consider their treatment of buffett >> last i checked he was alive and well ?
mircea_popescu: so you smell... rotten cum, as a passing waft. you figure... whatever, my mind's brokt. then you smell it again. eventually you tear the whole house upside down, nothing nowhere. to eventually find it comes from.... an older avocado.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> he has phobias. << Some people come to Bitcoin out of their technical knowledge. Some people like myself come because crazy. A Yarvin beats around the bushes because of an uncomfortable median?
gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: damnit i step out to drill a few holes in the dirt shack and miss all the good stuff (tm) as always.
asciilifeform: the mob << grep mr mold's works for 'looks like hitler'
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: he wouldn't have been out there trying to make a bitcoin-... << claims that he tried (and gave up, because 'can have problems') << lies. what is the urbit thing ?
mircea_popescu: suppose i ran for fucking congress in say south africa, on the internal conviction that upon the destruction of south africa lies my prosperity.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: he wouldn't have been out there trying to make a bitcoin-... << claims that he tried (and gave up, because 'can have problems')
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: he [yarvin] doesn't want the current one to crash << this is because he is persuaded (not necessarily wrongly) that he and his children will be eaten by orcs when crash
pete_dushenski: though it's tough to know if they're white when most faces are obscured and light levels not conducive to determining skin tone
mircea_popescu: 50k in debt, social sciences degree and a history of opining in the press is the qualification.
mircea_popescu: white is scarcely the qualification here.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> pete_dushenski no, that's still the chadians. show me one of these fucktarded, social sciences major chick twerking. << If I still used the Facebook thing this might be possible.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski no, that's still the chadians. show me one of these fucktarded, social sciences major chick twerking.
mircea_popescu: they're doing some pathetic recouping of old-and-senile buffett now, mostly predicated on denouncing as heresy his actually useful contributions, two decades prior.
mircea_popescu: guy comprehends more economy than the entire profession of academic economist in the history of the united states.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo even leaving that scandal aside, consider their treatment of buffett.
BingoBoingo: The USian brahamin could have done great if they would have let James starve when the dumpsters ran out of food and instead elevated Peirce
mircea_popescu: they're emulating a 1844 postcard sent from paris, wisconsin.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo neither were usians.
mircea_popescu: and this schmuck has the unmitigated audacity to belittle other shit from atop of all that nonachievement ?!
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> no but im seriously offended. the entire fucking pile of a century worth of chomskis and whatnot "brahmins" has produced exactly 0 cultural output. << I blame Husserl and Derrida
mircea_popescu: it's not that the us doesn';t have a great brahmin novel. it has NOTHING.
mircea_popescu: no but im seriously offended. the entire fucking pile of a century worth of chomskis and whatnot "brahmins" has produced exactly 0 cultural output.
BingoBoingo: Anyways, misdemeanor disordely case appears to have been continued. Have to get a hold of the lawyer to find out in which of the two ways, the beneficial way ot the optimally beneficial way this went.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: You write in a way that the elements of the emotional rants and reasoned arguments have clear seperations discernable to readers
pete_dushenski: that convinced me they were too fragile and i ended up with a 350z for a few years
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> dignork functionally, this is idiocy (denying the fruits of reason lest they interfere with the desires of emotion) << Amazing how the Yarvins don't separate their reasoned arguments from their emotional rants
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> twas available on all gm vehicles and even some volkswagens, such as the phaeton << In undergrad our College's president had a phaeton as his College supplied vehicle.
mircea_popescu: dignork functionally, this is idiocy (denying the fruits of reason lest they interfere with the desires of emotion)
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: ty (and kakobrekla) for fixing the ads!
BingoBoingo: Onstar was the meat tracker
pete_dushenski: twas available on all gm vehicles and even some volkswagens, such as the phaeton
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu:<asciilifeform> (what's it about in reality? real-time tracking of all meat inventory. and, with a little more magic - your car is own gasenwagen when time comes.) << they already had a pilot for this. amusingly, it was sold as an expensive ad on for luxury brands. northstar or something. << northstar was the name of a fairly awful gm v8, onstar was their tracking device
mircea_popescu: what then ?
mircea_popescu: this however is not supported by what we're discussing. when you see someone who displays the mental gymnastics required to comprehend the ffi, and then fails to resolve a problem which requires merely differential calculus
BingoBoingo: The water's too deep
BingoBoingo: One can not build a banana republic by stacking deck chairs on the titanic.
mircea_popescu: dignork de facto, in the "malicious or idiotic" dilemma you were proposing the latter.
BingoBoingo: I've never really liked his argumentative style as he tries to put forth the grand societal argment relying on mush that seem reminiscent of Urbit "jets"
dignork: mircea_popescu: I never said he is stupid, but the proposed model is not thought through.
mircea_popescu: but that aside, the relative success of b-a as compared to every other dickless-shithead run channel on freenode and beyond speaks directly to the superior cultural achievements and ability of the structured society.
mircea_popescu: as far as that lasts, if it even survived past the brahmin bloomberg.
mircea_popescu: fuck off, the only reason you can even have a decent meal in new york is the fucking mob.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo what i most took exception with was the inane proposition that the mob (w/.e he calls it, d something) had "no cultural insitutions"
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I am astounded by that post, the structure and foundation of his argument, and his conclusions. Applying Subcontinental templates onto Us society with the readiness a programmer might call some javascript data structures to be used in python
mircea_popescu: if this were the true case he wouldn't have been out there trying to make a bitcoin-killer-ap six weeks after it became obvious to him bitcoin is the killer ap.
mircea_popescu: once that's on the table, the difference between yarvin and dutta is purely cosmetic.
mircea_popescu: which is the spirit behind that clause, and generally speaking the spirit behind everything that'll ever work.
mircea_popescu: this because back at reality ranch, the only way to win the game is to constantly attack all the way to the king. there's no prizes for having lost the game but "successfully sieged a rook".
mircea_popescu: the insurgency is not derping with stupid books, the insurgency is the mob, amassing power at the bottom of the market fluxes in the utopian world.
mircea_popescu: the whole thing works, intentionally or no, as a fine work of mr o'brien. only a fucking imbecile would imagine that THAT is the book of the insurgency.
mircea_popescu: "This should be reason enough for anyone to avoid taking up cudgels on behalf of either."
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mircea_popescu: ie, he admits some "outrageous" points, which gives him some credence in the eyes of the more naive intelligent folk, youngestrs mostly. he then turns around and uses this capital to consolidate the very monster he pretends to position himself against
mircea_popescu: that reminds me BingoBoingo : i was gonna say i don't like curtis yarvin / mencius moldbug for the following very specific reason - he sounds exactly like a propaganda job for smart people.
BingoBoingo: Best preambulatory clause: "WHEREAS F.DERP issues synthetic equivalents of worthless fiat businesses fraudulently purporting involvement in Bitcoin and exposure to the Bitcoin economy with the irresponsible support of the US propaganda machine as well as the allegedly private investment arm of the US Fed, in order to allow unfettered price discovery for the underlyings in the actual Bitcoin stock market ; "
mircea_popescu: On Friday, the peso recovered a smidgen, and the reported blue dollar rate dipped below 14 ARS/USD, after the central bank had reportedly blown $10 million of its foreign exchange reserves to prop it up. << to put this in perspective : the argentine natl bank foreign reserves went up 2.5 bn in the interval since i wrote im supporting them and the reporting cutoff for q2. (ie, early august)
mircea_popescu: "Expect the government to take action to bring this rate down fast, wrote Bianca Fernet, stilettos-on-the-ground American economist in Buenos Aires and contributor to Wolf Street. T"
BingoBoingo: I imagine MP reading these logs off of a projection onto a girl's back as she's bent over
WoT-Hater: just a good citizen clicking a link on the internet, sir
WoT-Hater: we up in socialist canada don't need the wot, eh? we just trust our good neighbor and maple syrup danielpbarron
asciilifeform: hint - the phrase 'international community'
asciilifeform: i suppose everyone here knows what the word 'community' means to a usg muppet
mircea_popescu: this is how much teh usg dimwit in charge of this project comprehends of these matters. fuckwit actually imagined that "the community" is stupid enough and the stupid enough part relevant enough to go for shit like this because... it says "the community" in it.
asciilifeform: 'included the idea that "the community" would "just" decide to delete UTXOs - that is freeze funds...'
mircea_popescu: was a few hundred, they don't get that many comments.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> so - how long does conformal corp. have before one should conclude they failed the 'test' (approved mircea_popescu's comment) ? << Another possibility may be retarded/ovezealous/otherwise poisoned spam filtering.
mircea_popescu: next time they publish something on that blog ?
asciilifeform: so - how long does conformal corp. have before one should conclude they failed the 'test' (approved mircea_popescu's comment) ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ancient romanian joke : people trying to become cops are given an intelligence test, the geometric shapes and box with cutouts thing.
ben_vulpes: "you must have an iq of less than 115 to actually pass the tests and be a cop"
ben_vulpes: i've heard some great rumors on the hipster conspiracy circuit lately
BingoBoingo: ly spoon-feed details to him about the armed robbery.
BingoBoingo: http://www.bnd.com/2014/08/27/3370370/lawsuit-deputies-coerced-confession.html << Yates, who has diminished cognitive ability, was repeatedly told that they knew he was involved in the robbery and that he could avoid being put into jail by confessing, the lawsuit states. A visibly shaken Yates eventually agreed to admit to the crime to end the psychologically brutal interrogation, his attorneys said. The defendants had to repeated
mircea_popescu: jurov: it's beneath them to concern with individual and personal key verification << yeah, because everyone wants to talk to people it can't even learn the name of. totally.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: then later "hey did you get my message?" << they don't have gribble where they live. because barbarians.
mircea_popescu: punkman: ben_vulpes: oic, they put everything in btcwire library, but btcd won't use it << bitwire is iirc todd's thing to make network move faster
mircea_popescu: xanthyos: TheNewDeal: the site has a profit motive in having big showdowns. in cash games it increases rake taken on the hand. << it's not just that. most poker players are idiots. they like to see the pretty pictures. makes them feel better about themselves.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: xanthyos whenever I played SWC I also suspected that good hands came too often << as long as they come equally often for everyone, i imagine the argument goes, this isn'tr cheating but promotion.
mircea_popescu: to put it another way : a century ago, back when university professors had the common decency to die aged 60ish, kids ended up with assistant professroships aged 20something, not 30+.
mircea_popescu: in fact, any half-sane investor would back out once this mess is brought to their attention, seeing how the only thing coming out of it is a decade of litigation on his money.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: i suspect Cavirtex is doing fundraising or such and wants to fuck over the real early angels << if this is true, the published announcement opens all the directors to pretty serious criminal liability, not to mention that any court would undo the "sale".
mircea_popescu: to the ace, pre river ? that's what, 1 in 300k
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: in making the election to accept $20 for a cab ride home, you will be deemed to not have been drugged and assaulted at my house last night << sounds legit.
mircea_popescu: dub: a bartender can't legally serve someone thats already drunk as fuck, a bank only has its own criteria << actualkly a bank also can't lend to the bankrupt, so...
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol: blaming banks for bubble is like blaming bartenders for alcoholism << this has a lengthy tradition in the puritan world.
mircea_popescu has the great buenos aires trial of the enemies of freedom script half written already.
mircea_popescu: this is why you don't want every dick and jane "participating". they fucking corrupt anything they participate in.
mircea_popescu: the problem with reddit is that a fucktarded audience gives incentive for fucktarded arguments from people who would otherwise shut up.
ben_vulpes: the house might get wet though!
mircea_popescu: "o my house is burning, it's not reasonable to stop watching pokemon while putting the fire out"
mircea_popescu: fucking hell ? a) STILL with the "satoshi hairball" bs ? 5 years later ? b) it's not "Reasonable" ? it';s fucking mandatory.
mircea_popescu: "Satoshi created a hairball. It takes years sometimes to cleanup a codebase that has accumulated a lot of technical debt. It's not reasonable to just stop all feature development in the meantime."
mircea_popescu: cazalla: is price-to-income a good way of evaluating a housing bubble? << it's an indicator. tho it also reflects the center/periphery balance (ie, in any realm, the capital is cheapest and the fringes most expensive. that's where mining happens or w/e, higher risk adventuring. easier money, less boring people, higher risk so many explanations for larger rents)
mircea_popescu: i should prolly group all these huh.
gribble: Error: I am not seeing this user on IRC. If you want information about a registered gpg user, try the 'gpg info' command instead.
BingoBoingo: Looks like the node behavior battle is warming up
mircea_popescu: "Mike's response to that concern included the idea that "the community" would "just" decide to delete UTXOs - that is freeze funds - by creating a chain fork. Not the first time he's suggesting freezing funds; I think he's being a bit tone deaf here..."
punkman: fluffypony, how's monero these days?
BingoBoingo: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2eq8gi/getutxos_a_convenient_way_to_crash_bitcoind/ck34k8s << The heart of infiltration
mod6: mmm devour the red mole
gribble: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: http://bitcoinstats.com/irc/bitcoin-dev/logs/2014/08/27#l1409155575 << Absorb the harm of Hearn "Why can't bitcoind automatically restart?"
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thestringpuller: perhaps the sybil attack has already begun...
thestringpuller: It just smells like there is a mole among us.
thestringpuller: TheNewDeal: who me?
thestringpuller: is there a mole among us?
atcbot: [PityThePool Hashrate]: 719.65 GH/s [iSpace Pool Hashrate]: 1.26 TH/s
assbot: lol my thesis: I'm trying to predict the stock market and I don't even know why anyone approved this.
punkman: http://lolmythesis.com/post/92456241593/im-trying-to-predict-the-stock-market-and-i-dont-even
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jurov: it's beneath them to concern with individual and personal key verification
ben_vulpes: then later "hey did you get my message?"
ben_vulpes: i don't get the furor over key distribution
ben_vulpes: 61 neither?
ben_vulpes: now i'm looking over the past few bips as well
Apocalyptic: i was actually asking about the last few BIPs
punkman: ben_vulpes: oic, they put everything in btcwire library, but btcd won't use it
Apocalyptic: ben_vulpes, so btcd is actually mirroring all these new features of bitcoind ?
ben_vulpes: punkman: "btcd won’t be supporting the command because it is completely unauthenticated and insecure as pointed out numerous times on the initial pull request."
Apocalyptic: even in the newest bitcoind, you still have "protocolversion" : 70002, and the protocol should be the only concern when dealing with 2 different implementations
punkman: ben_vulpes: but is btcd a good idea if they are compatible with the newest, bestest derpfeatures from bitcoind?
penguirker: New blog post: http://cascadianhacker.com/blog/2014/08/28_conformal-are-the-real-bitcoin-core-devs.html
jurov: cavirtex - the original DERP
xanthyos: "no true scammer would take a .scam domain, they MUST be honest."
xanthyos: the .scam domain needs to start being used.
xanthyos: TheNewDeal: the site has a profit motive in having big showdowns. in cash games it increases rake taken on the hand. in tournaments it accelerates the rate at which people are eliminated, thus reducing server load
punkman: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/opinion/thomas-edsall-the-expanding-world-of-poverty-capitalism.html
punkman: " in Washington state, N.P.R. found, offenders even “get charged a fee for a jury trial — with a 12-person jury costing $250, twice the fee for a six-person jury.”"
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ThickAsThieves: i bet it's the owner
ThickAsThieves: this reminds me, wasnt there a dude repeatedly doing FUD on Cavirtex in the mos before delisting?
ThickAsThieves: i assume they have by now
ThickAsThieves: in case others cant find it
ThickAsThieves: not 2 weeks cavirtex is doing PR about Bitcoin ATMs in malls, they are growing, not dying
ThickAsThieves: i hope so, you may wanna ask others though
ThickAsThieves: yeah i'd hold them shares tight if it were me
ThickAsThieves: "In the case where VirtEx is bought out by another company or VirtEx pays a dividend to its shareholders, Bitcoin shareholders will get paid in Bitcoin at the Canadian dollar equivalent rate using the best market prices at the time"
ThickAsThieves: "his is NOT a separate fund; this is the fund that represents real equity ownership in VirtEx!"
ThickAsThieves: note, the original prospectus says nothing about Class B
kakobrekla: >NastyFans aren't taking any kind of a loss, it is all positive ROI for them. There are no costs associated with NastyFans and hashrate is all a win for them, so taking a loss is actually impossible with our structure.
dvsdude: but I would have find someone else to buy them later and like nubbins said they are class b shares
nubbins`: my advice is to start from the assumption your money is gone, and keep or sell the shares based on whether you think they'll be worth +/- 0 in the future
ThickAsThieves: i remember when someone was unloading coinbase shares before they became a thing
ThickAsThieves: my advice is keep the shares
dvsdude: so best advise is take the hit
nubbins`: hope they're hedging that 8)
nubbins`: i like how their buyback offer has a fixed btc/cad exchange rate too
nubbins`: there isn't one
nubbins`: well, maybe, let's check the prospectus
ThickAsThieves: they are doing a buyback after all
ThickAsThieves: i bet they hold a bunch
nubbins`: bet ya 5 satoshis that the actual owners don't hold class B shares
nubbins`: besides, they're fucking class-B shares
xanthyos: flop a nut royal with the cards in descending order
ThickAsThieves: i suspect Cavirtex is doing fundraising or such and wants to fuck over the real early angels
xanthyos: my luck doesn't blind me to the thievery
ThickAsThieves: <+nubbins`> dvsdude: i think it's safe to say that keeping the shares will offer you no tangible benefits whatsoever //i dont think i agree with this
nubbins`: dvsdude: i think it's safe to say that keeping the shares will offer you no tangible benefits whatsoever
nubbins`: xanthyos just as likely as any other 5-card combo XD
xanthyos: this is what the "legitimate" shuffle algorithm of the world's most popular bitcoin poker site spits out: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BwIkxGxIcAAH34g.jpg
ThickAsThieves: like you might be able to get your finance guy to wrap the shares into another thing
ThickAsThieves: i ask about the value because you might have some workarounds if you dont qualify as a qualified invetsor
dvsdude: hate to say what a chump i'am but started to buy them in 2011
nubbins`: in making the election to accept $20 for a cab ride home, you will be deemed to not have been drugged and assaulted at my house last night
ThickAsThieves: but they gotta try probly
nubbins`: "in making the election to accept the Offer, you will be deemed to have never been a shareholder"
ThickAsThieves: what is the approx value of your shares. in your own estimation
dvsdude: this is the prob
nubbins`: it's all lost to memory now. anyway, fuck em. do whatever they don't want you to do
ThickAsThieves: i dont think so, but ive done drugs between then and now so....
ThickAsThieves: they announced it
nubbins`: ThickAsThieves: you heard they were delisting before it happened? :0
nubbins`: i'd probably keep them too, if only for the fact that they REALLY seem to want to buy them back
ThickAsThieves: i almost bought some myself when i heard they were delisting
ThickAsThieves: and keeping them
ThickAsThieves: i'd suggest registering the shares
dvsdude: i want to give them back but i'm taking a hit
dvsdude: he wants to buy them back
nubbins`: do you think the buyback offer is at a fair price?
nubbins`: !up devthedev
nubbins`: so i've been doing some test prints for these posters, everything looks good, gonna start full production today
pankkake: is it the bitcoin price?
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Vexual: it's like the closest thing to a culture we have
Vexual: statistically, australian don't complain about publicans serving too much beer and they also pay back loans.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
xmj: (technically they're described by financial market authority regulations)
dub: there is tight governance around when and who a bartender can serve
RagnarDanneskjol: re: is it a good way of evaluating? it is a descent indicator - if compared to historical data in the same area/demographic (as opposed some arbitrary comparison to a region on the opposite end of the planet)
cazalla: although people have been predicting this bubble would burst since the early 2000s
cazalla: The median house price to income of Sydney is nine times, compared to 6.2 times in New York and 7.3 times in London. Even Adelaide is more expensive than New York on price-to-income basis.
cazalla: http://www.theage.com.au/business/the-economy/australias-housing-bubble-is-real-and-banks-are-to-blame-says-author-20140828-109ahx.html
mircea_popescu: October) he said: "It would not have been accepted in 1945 that the UN should include tiny states whose only justification for existence is that their territory is no longer wanted by the colonial governments that supported them for years." The light dawns!
mircea_popescu: The problems of "majority rule" did not, of course, arise in America way back in 1776 since these sturdy pioneers evolved their own expedient for dealing with such matters. However, Mr. Goldberg, chief U.S. delegate to the UN, seems at last to be concerned over "majority rule"at UN itself, where small, insignificant states are usurping the peace-keeping authority of the great powers. On the UN's 21st birthday (24th
mircea_popescu: " Americans probably now know less about Rhodesia than they do about the moon, which does not deter them from trying to impose on us the "solution" and resulting chaos they helped to entrench in the strife-torn Congo."
mircea_popescu: "107 Four former ministers accused of plotting against General Mobutu were hanged in Leopoldville's Grand Square before a Wembley-sized "gate" of 100,000 after being condemned at a 90-minute open-air "trial". No evidence was presented, no prosecution case made, there were no witnesses and the defendants had no counsel. There were also no protest marches in London, no sermon in St. Paul's, no letters to The Times, no de
mircea_popescu: That Rhodesian Africans actually assist their "oppressors" in hunting down terrorist would-be "liberators" refutes the lie that this is a land of turmoil and strife. There has, in fact, been more racial disturbance and bloodshed in Chicago or Los Angeles in a week than in Rhodesia in a year.
mircea_popescu: After a year of pressures, scorn, sanctions and diatribe, Rhodesia emerged more resolute in her will to survive, and with a more stable, stronger, and more dignified image (192) an image gratuitously, though unintentionally, created for her by the failure of her would-be detractors. Mainspring of her stability lies in the deep reservoir of inter-racial goodwill.
mircea_popescu: The "talks" were resumed. Elsewhere in Africa things were about normalfor Africa. There was a coup here and there (140), Zambia committed transport hara-kiri (137), some lively Somali border skirmishing produced its quota of casualties, summary "justice" was administered in the Congo (107), and about 1,000 Ugandans were bumped off by Premier Obote (119)nothing really serious enough to warrant the attention of a
RagnarDanneskjol: the nick is mildly trollish
TheNewDeal: was wondering the same
decimation: one wonders how many anonymous friends #b-a has out there...
decimation: wow, a troll who - contributes to the conversation?
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up-me-please-lin: regarding the repurposing of africa:
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mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski amusingly, that's the premiere employment the locals get in the chinese colony towns. they ship whores in, but when it comes to sports local kids get the job.
cazalla: they make great whiskey sours
cazalla: pete_dushenski, nfi they all have fancy names and change the menu, many of them are great though (i have not been in a while though having a kid and all)