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(trilema) Mocky: word was that they may be angry if they feel forced to pay for an intangible, but that will fade and you don't lose respect. but get caught in a lie and they are done with you
(trilema) Mocky: another thing was that Qatari business men highly value honesty since many foreign partners actually do try to rip them off and are deceptive.
(trilema) Mocky: even if you're a crazy ass vet doc who keeps getting into accidents by not looking
(trilema) Mocky: if you are a white woman or a doctor, cops very accommodating toward you, let you off tickets
(trilema) Mocky: also huge fine if you stop past the "stop line". If you go over camera starts recording, tiny light flashes. if you reverse back to proper spot and wave your hand out the window showing submission at the camera, you don't get a ticket!
(trilema) Mocky: I found out why cars are so nice toward pedestrians in the crosswalks. if you run a red, 3000 USD fine. cameras at most intersections
(trilema) Mocky: theres also a "blockchain doha" group with 103 members, I can reach out to
(trilema) Mocky: i also reached out to local bitcoin guy. turns out there are two. one sells other buys. I reached out the the seller but no response yet. The buyer doesn't have contact info listed and i don't have the bitcoin to answer his ad so haven't contacted yet.
(trilema) Mocky: but so many nods around the table, makes me suspect flaws widely present, to some degree
(trilema) Mocky: it could also be that the above descriptions have selection bias of young Qatari biznis noobs, or peripheral wot members
(trilema) Mocky: remember, it's indians coming up with those ideas so options dun enter into it
(trilema) Mocky: a chick unrelated to todays info breakfast also suggested the coffee bar in La Cigal Hotel
(trilema) Mocky: but that was suggested as not a good place to start
(trilema) Mocky: men from a couple of the most powerful families hang out at a Costa coffee chain in the shittiest mall in the city
(trilema) Mocky: the regular spots are mostly 5 star hotels on the water. St. Regis, The Four Seasons, The Pearl Qatar & Medina Centrale. Also there's some pickup beach volleyball at katara beach on fridays once the day cools off
(trilema) Mocky: "majlis" not majalis
(trilema) Mocky: the vet doc has been invited 12 times. he said in the beginning he prepared things to say, ways to pitch business. but they never wanted to talk business with him, just playstation
(trilema) Mocky: this is only done by qataris established enough to have own household
(trilema) Mocky: normally is informal "playstation" time, but occasionally, perhaps once a week, it's more formal and they talk business
(trilema) Mocky: re meeting Qataris, I found that 30-something aged men interested in business hang out at certain places on a daily basis. if you go and hang there and get to know them, if they like you they may invite you to majalis. which is the regular practice of closing off half of the home from women in the evening and doing man cave shit
(trilema) Mocky: bitcoin is also illegal for banks to exchange in. which apparently some wanted to do but now central bank authority has banned
(trilema) Mocky: if there is more beyond that, i haven't dug deep enough to find it
(trilema) Mocky: bank invests, shares profit
(trilema) Mocky: yes lending at interest illegal. credit card issuance with interest, illegal
(trilema) Mocky: asciilifeform, this I haven't heard, but flashy stuff like rolex, lambos, bentleys I have heard
(trilema) Mocky: i get the impression from other talks (not today) that there is no end of "i have great biz idea for importing from my home country india" being pitched
(trilema) Mocky: got a years worth of rain here today
(trilema) Mocky: too many keyboards sitting on lap
(trilema) Mocky: fuck, ignore
(trilema) Mocky: files swim to safety?
(trilema) Mocky: And sticking a Qatari with ongoing expenditures was never on my radar, def seems like something to explicitly avoid.
(trilema) Mocky: Being as the requirement for standard LLC is 51% Qatari ownership, this new info suggests to me that having two locals who split the 51% may be the way to go. They can still close it down but not at the whim of a single person.
(trilema) Mocky: to much time seeing fat cats in US
(trilema) Mocky: and move so slowly
(trilema) Mocky: the cats tho! so skinny and downs syndrome looking
(trilema) Mocky: but ~all cats i've seen are stones throw from open dumpster. i bet if they had auto-closing lids on dumpsters cats would go extinct
(trilema) Mocky: cats a plenty
(trilema) Mocky: no dogs but word this morning was that expat western women keep them here like surrogate children just as elsewhere, and there are enough to make a good business
(trilema) Mocky: maybe they want to claim "i started a charity like my older brother" no idea yet why
(trilema) Mocky: and don't want to have to put sweat into it either
(trilema) Mocky: Word is that they want to make a profit, but don't want to have to put money into it. and they want the profit now. but don't think it thru, maybe can be convinced easily
(trilema) Mocky: that I don't know
(trilema) Mocky: One Qatari owns a chain of 9 fittness supplement stores. 3 of the stores were found to have someone pocketing the cash from transactions. Owner fired everyone in all 9 stores because "see, everyone tries to steal from us". Also he had his driver who can barely count to 10 doing store inventory for him.
(trilema) Mocky: like both don't think and won't listen
(trilema) Mocky: came across like simpleton management, decree whatever occurs to you, dilbert-esque pointy haired manager on steroids
(trilema) Mocky: and this wasn't like just one school. was city wide "make every teacher do x" after 900 parent complaints "stop doing x"
(trilema) Mocky: Also re impulsiveness: one school adminsitrator said they have a rule of 3 for instructions comeing down from Qatari management. Let them ask three times including an official goverment memo before you do anything they say. Because as soon as they start to see the fall out of random impulsive decisions they will reverse it and have you undo all your work.
(trilema) Mocky: isn't necessarily bad, but bad that they waited till 3 months in to even think about it. In the case of the shelter, it was a charity, never meant to make a profit. but still "dun wanna pay anymore"
(trilema) Mocky: also seems to go hand in hand with their impulsiveness. 3 different people described this exact scenario. Qatari goes opens a business with someone (one freelance vet service, one animal rescue shelter, one doggy day care) 3 months later decides, "I didn't realize I was going to have to keep paying so much every month (payroll, rent, etc.) where's the profit?" "it may take a year to become profitable, it's only been 3 months" "I'm not paying anymore." which
(trilema) Mocky: a stable of horses, no matter how much it saves them in the long run.
(trilema) Mocky: This goes hand in hand with their feeling that everyone comes to Qatar to take their money and rip them off. So all these fancy insurance / maintenance contracts "feel" like they give nothing to the buyer, plus they were dreamed up by foreigners who come to rip them off and decieve them. They detest such things. Easier to sell them a spoon they can old in their hand today for a million dollars than get them to agree to a monthly payout to a vet for care of
(trilema) Mocky: i've haven't seen personally, so all i can do is report for now
(trilema) Mocky: diana_coman, that could be a reasonable assumption and i suggested the same to my companions, they shook thier heads.
(trilema) Mocky: impression i got was totalcostofownership can't compete with how they feel about it in their gut
(trilema) Mocky: Another example was horse needed some major surgery. owner had no problem paying for facilities, staff, ancillaries but balked at paying surgeon fee. "i pay you much less for minor treatments, why must I pay more for your time now". Selling them preventative medicine or machine maintenance is a non-starter. They'd rather pay 10x when the emergency hits because then they know they are getting something for their money.
(trilema) Mocky: because insurance was to expensive for the given coverage, but because "paying money to get nothing".
(trilema) Mocky: They have a very poor appreciation for intangibles. They want to get something they can hold in their hand when they spend money. If it's something they can't see, they balk at paying for it. And if they do pay for it, it'll bother them to no end. One example was dude decided he wanted a car, ordered a brand new, fully customized Bentley. 350k USD. Wouldn't go pick it up when it arrived because balked at having to pay 900 USD /month for insurance. not
(trilema) Mocky: so i dug into what it's like to be in business with Qataris and how their attitudes are, with my 11 new acquaintances at breakfast today. 3 of them have had first hand experience in their business dealings for years now and happy to tell stories. I'll relay the gist of it here. on the following points there was not the slightest disagreement from anyone at the table, only nodding heads and further stories illustrating the exact same points.
(trilema) Mocky: i met others as well, europeans, americans, canadians but they didn't know about biz or qataris enough to contribute to the convo
(trilema) Mocky: the other was an Egyptian veterinary doctor who has been working freelance here for some years
(trilema) Mocky: an older american lady who works in a qatari house and has authority over the financial dealings of the sons with business degrees from uni and because of the status of the father (her boss) there are other lower station qataris that she doesn't need to listen to
(trilema) Mocky: phf well i've only spoken to foreigners here about it so that could be the case here as well, but it does say "shisha" on the printed menu, but also printed in english for foreigners
(trilema) Mocky: today was at a cheesecake factory, in a mall bigger than my home town in which I got lost twice
(trilema) Mocky: yes, actually, but they don't call it hookah here, they call it shisha. but that wasn't today and no humans in sight
(trilema) Mocky: talked to me for a couple hours about biznis, Qataris etc. got some good info
(trilema) Mocky: oh my god I found some humans today
(trilema) Mocky: my AC compressor on the roof had a problem. now these clowns didn't fix it but did manage to break the indoor fan and circuit board as well. and i gotta get up in 6 hours for this meet and greet. gonna be a sweaty night
(trilema) Mocky: i would say that local virii stand no chance against me but that would jinx it
(trilema) Mocky: and i mean it's cool that 3 dudes will show up to fix your ac at 11pm, back in states it's 9-5 strictly, but man pushing up on 1am and they still working and not seeing signals of competence...
(trilema) Mocky: but i think it's because my AC has been our for 6 hrs, cuz totally
(trilema) Mocky: my tonsils have felt swolen for past 4 hours but im not saying it out loud so it wont be real
(trilema) Mocky: it's hard to understand people here, randomly selected thick accent each time. it's a relief to run into brit or irish
(trilema) Mocky: "they have respect so much" damn, only 10 days and I'm already doing english like the indians/philipinos/nigerians/ethiopians/tanzanians/wakandans etc.
(trilema) Mocky: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-19#1864270 >> I don't have everything sorted in my mind. I don't know yet what they need or perceive that they need. or how to position myself with respect to the microsoft/cisco/cornell they have respect so much.
(trilema) Mocky: white man is on a pedestal here. americans the most
(trilema) Mocky: it's weird because they way they look up to americans and western companies / universities, while also infidel
(trilema) Mocky: hey, maybe if i actually was suave then could come up with how to explain the future to orcs, but i'll get more chances to try tomorrow in any case
(trilema) Mocky: "hello sir, i'm a nigerian prince with excellent business opportunities"
(trilema) Mocky: that's about how i feel honestly when walking up to people and talking to them about this stuff
(trilema) Mocky: I talk to people about what I'm doing here and I'm not really all that good at talking to people and I only half know wtf i'm doing here. i mean in a way that I can explain to randos and have it make sense
(trilema) Mocky: i'm meeting 25 more people tomorrow at some meetup thing at a mall with gondola rides thru an interior canal
(trilema) Mocky: yeah, lots of money
(trilema) Mocky: keeping an eye on their females
(trilema) Mocky: I can find local males, there are tons walking around malls in bright white robes with their families.
(trilema) Mocky: yeah, good idea
(trilema) Mocky: one dude with one transaction
(trilema) Mocky: localbitcoins shows one dude in country. and a couple nearby in SA, dubai etc.
(trilema) Mocky: but the sun sets early without daylight savings time, and it cools quickly without the sun, so can walk outside after about 4:45
(trilema) Mocky: here, civilized person can't walk more than 3 blocks outside during midday. would be drenched in sweat. likewise can't stand for 15 minutes waiting for bus. it's get into a car with AC or smell like the riff raff
(trilema) Mocky: "now you are officially a limo driver also" "wtf!?"
(trilema) Mocky: i'm sure the qataris in lambos would love that angle
(trilema) Mocky: traffic is only bad here during rush hour, and even then not as bad as rush hour in us cities. so long as you avoid the "10 minute lights"
(trilema) Mocky: the list of permitted would be longer
(trilema) Mocky: fine grained sortage of foreigners
(trilema) Mocky: fwiw, i quite like it. all comers don't need to look in my windows and knock on my door
(trilema) Mocky: and also why so reasonably priced
(trilema) Mocky: i get it now why ubers swarm like piranha, most need a taxi to get around
(trilema) Mocky: ikr? that list is the old one too. the newer once is twice as long, includes "computer programmer"
(trilema) Mocky: even in the grocery, a dozen security guards on duty at once. some walking some guarding
(trilema) Mocky: i see a resemblance
(trilema) Mocky: that reminds me how overstaffed everything is here. jewelry store in side a hypermarket, 7 dudes behind the counter. not enough room to all stretch arms out. 3 guards. zero customers. in the mall no matter where you go, will be in sight of 2 security guards
(trilema) Mocky: right, paul grahamluator
(trilema) Mocky: silicon valley emulator
(trilema) Mocky: that seems to be the report from housekeepers. bored qataris with nothing to do but shisha, sex and kfc
(trilema) Mocky: if there are local girls who dont' look exactly like this at all times in public, I havent seen: http://www.milenio.com/tendencias/Mujeres-Arabia-Saudita_MILIMA20160119_0193_8.jpg
(trilema) Mocky: dozens of party boats that head out for afternoon / evening party / swimming in the bay. thumping music in harbor at night
(trilema) Mocky: the big thing is the party boats in west bay, wooden boats you can seen in like half the public pics of Doha skyline.
(trilema) Mocky: there are a bunch of beaches. some closes during turtle nesting season. spread around qatar. not sure how many close to Doha, but not like it's a big country
(trilema) Mocky: pretty much
(trilema) Mocky: gotta pass a medical exam that says if you'd survive. can keep shirt on. reportedly brusing not bleeding
(trilema) Mocky: fewer lashes for theft etc. I know the corporal punishment sentences are handed down, but not always implemented. I don't know the ratio of commuting to jail time / deportation
(trilema) Mocky: finger / hand / arm chopping ... not a thing anymore here
(trilema) Mocky: for the man only
(trilema) Mocky: it's still on the books, 40 lashes for sex outside marriage for a muslim. i think they did it as recently as a few years ago
(trilema) Mocky: I don't know about public or not. as part of sharia law it applies only to muslims. they have secular law for non muslims.
(trilema) Mocky: but not often employed
(trilema) Mocky: flogging is still a thing here
(trilema) Mocky: quite rigid structure, few if any cracks to fall into. Foreigner is tourist, sponsored worker, or businessman. plenty of idle locals, but idle rich in nature, if not substance
(trilema) Mocky: idle layabouts?
(trilema) Mocky: also there's the angle of "good fences make good neighbors". but I'll ask
(trilema) Mocky: then ... "trouble"
(trilema) Mocky: evidently they no longer care unless you force them to care. like having a domestic dispute where police are called while living together unwed
(trilema) Mocky: it's not so anymore. now it's more "don't ask dont' tell", though unwed sex is still illegal, and some "family" oriented hotels here will ask for marriage cert
(trilema) Mocky: one thing i can say is that in the past there were guards hired at many villas to monitor the comings and goings. lover cannot be snuck into parents house easily, and expats had same problem here. "cannot bring girlfriend over... guard"
(trilema) Mocky: no, but I mean to ask. 100% ubiquitous here
(trilema) Mocky: well i guess more like DC or SF but with ~twice the popluation
(trilema) Mocky: can't build a pittsburg out of the sand in 35 years without grunts
(trilema) Mocky: actually i'm pretty sure everyone is getting a better deal than back home come to think of it
(trilema) Mocky: allowed to drive
(trilema) Mocky: but the upper class of foreign workers has a better deal than they'd get back home. comparable pay, dozen weeks of holiday per year, no taxes, housing provided
(trilema) Mocky: engineers, techies, skilled jobs who are indian, malay etc.
(trilema) Mocky: but also includes memebers of the next class up who are of the wrong race
(trilema) Mocky: this class works 12 hour days, or shift work and still has no money left over to actually do anything in thier free time
(trilema) Mocky: haha no, they can get license but not escape their 'station'
(trilema) Mocky: but also drivers are in that class, lol
(trilema) Mocky: next to bottom class is cheap workers who aren't permitted to get a drivers license: http://archive.is/Cg7uU
(trilema) Mocky: ftr: the bottom class is outside laborers, housed in barracks, transported by busses
(trilema) Mocky: not sure yet what the cost, or thier criteria
(trilema) Mocky: one of them claims on their website that certain IT and consulting busniesses don't require a local sponsor. if they actually have experience with these things I expect it to be helpful
(trilema) Mocky: i'm about to implement plan b, and talk to the local companies that advertise to help you get your business started and help find you a sponsor
(trilema) Mocky: no sure who shows up, probably mandatory for those in-program
(trilema) Mocky: they did have an event the day i arrived, but i missed it. no more events on the near calendar
(trilema) Mocky: the events are: make your slide deck, public speaking workshops, have an app...
(trilema) Mocky: ie year one do this, year 2 do this...
(trilema) Mocky: you have to get approved, but there's no one actually at the place to approve you, only desk minders. and if approved you have to join the sv track
(trilema) Mocky: no they have events and even people there, but i can't get in, lol
(trilema) Mocky: so the startup incubator is not at all like what i expected
(trilema) Mocky: but there's exactly no one here who would use a coworks. you either came here for a job, or your dad can get you a job
(trilema) Mocky: i went to both coworks. well, "coworks" one is 15th floor of a bank highrise that was empty and expensive. the other is trying to be a startup incubator run by the ministry of communications
(trilema) Mocky: well not so 'guilded' for the bottom two classes, but at least they can leave now if they want
(trilema) Mocky: but Qataris don't mix with the help, except the partying 20 somethings that don't want to work (reportedly) and they don't seem to be in their parents wot
(trilema) Mocky: the class system is strong, i've met only bottom 3 classes: guilded cage workers
(trilema) Mocky: week two has been wheel spinning so far like most of week 1. I've had in person conversations with 30+ people in the last week about business and finding a local business sponsor. None of these people are locals, none of them knows a local in business, or even an expat in business, or had any idea what they would do if needed to find.
(trilema) Mocky: some massive constructions sites with thousands of laborers
(trilema) Mocky: actually the only sand is at construction sites. of which there are many. in the city that is. nicely paved streets with nice looking brick sidewalks ~everywhere
(trilema) Mocky: so not at the edge of the city only, but almost everywhere
(trilema) Mocky: for example, there are 12 malls in Doha. if you stood on top of one, could see others.
(trilema) Mocky: the downtown area wraps the bay and is maybe 10 blocks deep. I guess you could call this 'a ring'. the rest of the city is basically concentric circles of rings b - f (actual street names) between which are neighborhoods of predominantly residential villas but with huge retail areas interspersed.
(trilema) Mocky: if they built like this in florida, hurricane season would be quite different. but then yeah hardly anyone would be able to afford to live there.
(trilema) Mocky: not really right to call it 'burbs, it's still in the city just not downtown. Villa is also often commercially, dr office, restaurant, shops: just with extra windows and signage
(trilema) Mocky: one result is that there isn't a single unsightly yard anywhere, from external pov. from inside pov, it seems like most have a junk pile their back 'yard'
(trilema) Mocky: in the 'burbs there are sort of ticky tack housing communities where a couple dozen villas will share one big wall, with guard on duty at the gate.
(trilema) Mocky: except for skyscrapers and 'artistic buildings' everything is cinder block or brick fully covered in concrete facing.
(trilema) Mocky: 8 foot walls for the cheap housing 20 foot for expensive. From what i can tell ~nobody lives outside of such 'fortress'
(trilema) Mocky: and no houses. commercial buildings and villas. every villa at least 3 stories, flat top, fully wrapped in concrete wall at least 8 feet high, with iron gate for car and iron door
(trilema) Mocky: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-19#1863915 >> no wires in sight anywhere in Doha
(trilema) Mocky: mircea_popescu, d. kyon is Diogenes?
(trilema) Mocky: *only after*
(trilema) Mocky: I can see that view, but by evaluating it only education and experience, runs into the same >> http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-18#1863542
(trilema) Mocky: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-18#1863546 >> if this is true then "you're not smart enough be here" is as meaningful as "not telepathic enough"
(trilema) Mocky: BingoBoingo, usually by the end of winter I look like a coffee with too much cream, but slightly too much summer sun and I turn into kunta kinte for 6 months
(trilema) Mocky: place is crawling with uber drives, never more than 3 minutes away no matter where you go, almost all driving a Kia
(trilema) Mocky: they also have uber-knockoffs, one named careem
(trilema) Mocky: uber in Qatar is cash, much to my surprise. I popped a sim into my second phone, made an uber acct, verifed with a text message, no CC, no identity verification. i was surprised
(trilema) Mocky: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-14#1862360 >> does 'restored' mean it should be in there now trinque? I don't see it.
(trilema) Mocky: !!reputation
(trilema) Mocky: oh, thx trinque. didn't get around to upping myself, just doing chores atm
(trilema) Mocky: I get it and I agree with you.
(trilema) Mocky: I don't disagree. I just wasn't able to infer this stance from your stated objection >> http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-13#1862166
(trilema) Mocky: the important point being that as a matter of policy, perpetuating smaller packet sizes is a bad idea
(trilema) Mocky: if a program wants to send 200 byte packets only, too bad, os won't allow cuz asciilifeform says your small number not godly?
(trilema) Mocky: so long as you can assume one tru packet size, you can get some ada benefits + extra simplicity, that you don't get otherwise, no?
(trilema) Mocky: it's a simplifying assumption that pays off with smooth transition between program and unix, when it holds. a tactical cut
(trilema) Mocky: no, i get it
(trilema) Mocky: ok so does the hardcoding need to be in-package for the preallocated buffers?
(trilema) Mocky is reading
(trilema) Mocky: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-13#1862167 >> I don't see how it would necessarily be any simpler aside from one `if` statement. And there's nothing to stop listening on separate ports and getting all benefits asciilifeform mentions with different sizes
(trilema) Mocky: oh shit, mircea_popescu unrated me!
(trilema) Mocky: stabbing not needed if boy can be cowwed. what, mayogendered gonna start taking the more strenuous route now?
(trilema) Mocky: probably same outcome BingoBoingo
(trilema) Mocky is in no danger of being suave
(trilema) Mocky: yeah i better tone down the eye makeup
(trilema) Mocky: in-group fashion trends, evidently
(trilema) Mocky: these are the ones out on the weekend looking for night life downtown
(trilema) Mocky: and the horde of scrawny indian dudes with their skinny jeans, even the fat ones still have scrawny legs and wear skinny jeans
(trilema) Mocky: street food vendors, outdoor diners all safe from flying pests
(trilema) Mocky: outside last night in the city, stones throw from the bay, staring up at street lights during the interminable wait at crosswalks, not a single bug circling street lights, not a spider web
(trilema) Mocky: the insect situation here hard to fathom. they just about don't have any. i saw a moth here on the first day, very small. and another moth outside last night, tiny.
(trilema) Mocky: she didn't say so and I didn't ask her directly, but I will. She seems like a good asset for making further media contacts and cultural info (topic of magazine) and not direct contact to locals
(trilema) Mocky: local Qatari men are shoe-ins for high level company / agency / gov jobs and often inherit a lot of wealth, and only ~100k of them so they aren't exactly drawn to street crimes
(trilema) Mocky: except for tourists who are very limited in stay duration
(trilema) Mocky: she says that ultimately every foreigner has a single named Qatari sponsor (typically company part-owner) who has the power to kick you out anytime and who gets hassled if you cause trouble
(trilema) Mocky: BingoBoingo, this is a short chick, btw, who walks around here alone on a daily basis, with a backpack for 6 years, never gets bothered
(trilema) Mocky: bought me dinner at an iraqi restaurant. seems like computer security is a huge thing here. even small companies like her magazine get 'cyber threats' at least weekly. bigger companies much more so. a lot of website and network hacking goes on.
(trilema) Mocky: She showed me the Souq Waqif, a large "street market" 2 city blocks in size, about half indoors (although the indoor part looks like narrow streets with a roof) it's like the cultural center for Qataris. various musical 'bands' playing traditional drum music
(trilema) Mocky: I met yesterday with a chick who does the social media and photography for a local magazine. She's not a local but seems to have a good set of connections and eager to help me out.
(trilema) Mocky: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-13#1861536 >> also sunk $B into building largest military base in the region for usg. 'feud' seems like public theatre to my noob eyes. US is well respected here in contrast to gulf state back-turners.
(trilema) Mocky: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-13#1861524 >> if I manage to penetrate subj, I'll report
(trilema) Mocky: unrelatedly, i saw the craziest thing leaving the air port. there are a lot of indian dudes around doing public works type labor jobs. landscaping, pickup up trash, construction etc. I saw one, and i swear he was mowing the grass with a chain saw, all squatted down. now maybe he was cutting something else, but there was nothing else there! and damn if the that lawn wasn't pristine as a golf course
(trilema) Mocky: with >80% foreigners all speaking english, the Qataris fear becoming ESL. signage is dual language because Arabic is mandated. in 2012 they passed a law mandating universities switch from english to arabic for all degree for all degree programs other than sci/eng/med. in 2016 further law mandating arabic for gov agencies, contracts, schools
(trilema) Mocky: if you look at zoomed in version, nepal, africa, caribbean, so not countries really
(trilema) Mocky: the side of that thing has the names of other countries on it...
(trilema) Mocky: i can see why so few foreigners learn the language, everything is in both english and arabic, signage, food labels, store receipts, even the money
(trilema) Mocky: diana_coman, i've got to find some that speak arabic. so far Indians, Nigerians, Nepalese and Asians all speaking english
(trilema) Mocky: yeah I think that was some late morning glare
(trilema) Mocky: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-10#1860111 >> I don't have anything for you currently
(trilema) Mocky: ooohhh, i get it
(trilema) Mocky: i got lost on kitchen robot, non existing item?
(trilema) Mocky: mircea_popescu, the significance of keccak here is to have a better hash of same?
(trilema) Mocky: oh, i didn't realize it was that much better with aggression. my prior, discouraged attempt was without aggression and looking to be substantially slower than 3 weeks
(trilema) Mocky: ahh, thx
(trilema) Mocky: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-10#1859947 >> btw, has there been any consideration of publishing a signed tar ball of the first, say half million blocks. not to have them set in stone, but like 'at height 550000, these were the first 500k' for purpose of eat-block jumpstart for nodeless noobs, such as myself? Log search didn't reveal it to my eyes.
(trilema) Mocky: speaking of deathless beasts in the wild, I'm curious how other people get notified when you have new blog comment to be moderated.
(trilema) Mocky: 'plus' was googles chance to play the role of bing, but to facebook
(trilema) Mocky: mircea_popescu, dunno: hard to tell if dancing while covered head to toe in black cloth
(trilema) Mocky: i'll be damned if i came 7 thousand miles to drink starbucks
(trilema) Mocky: in this neighborhood evidently 24hr coffee = starbucks
(trilema) Mocky: sunrise at 5:30, coffee shops opening at 7 or 8, *grunt*
(trilema) Mocky: foto blog is in the pipeline, sometime after figuring out coffee and food
(trilema) Mocky: good morning
(trilema) Mocky: makes sense
(trilema) Mocky: the air looks quite smoggy, but also over the gulf and away from the city to the point where I wondered if it was actually smog
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