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(trilema) Mocky: hmm strange
(trilema) Mocky: mircea_popescu, dec 3rd atm, gotta I move it up
(trilema) Mocky: I'm ready to gtfo
(trilema) Mocky: i had myself all worked up to walk into the grand viziers office, lol. was expecting to get shown the door along with distinct sense of closure
(trilema) Mocky: I don't know where else to go with this, mircea_popescu. I don't see anymore strings to pull on
(trilema) Mocky: there goes the org chart I was working off.
(trilema) Mocky: maybe I could talk to this guys boss? but no, complete cabinet reshuffle (announced yesterday?!) including not only new ministers all around, but different titles and responsibilities.
(trilema) Mocky: who could have predicted a used "general cool" ac would prove unreliable
(trilema) Mocky: aaaand... the air conditioner is out
(trilema) Mocky: him and his underlings
(trilema) Mocky: ahaha I found him. He's in san francisco discussing mutual collaboration with oracle chix: http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/05/11/2018/Oracle-OpenWorld-event
(trilema) Mocky: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-05#1869564 >> I'm glad I spent the half hour on the phone trying to find out where his desk actually is. His office says that he's out of the country and his calendar is full from the time he gets back until he leaves the country again at the end of November
(trilema) Mocky: it was half white dudes in suits with british accents who looked pretty straight laced
(trilema) Mocky: but when I watch it back I see that I softened my criticisms a lot
(trilema) Mocky: guy said blockchain was gonna fix fake news, it told him his interpretation of the "DAO hack and ether theft" was the fake news
(trilema) Mocky: but jokes on me, nobody got ruffled feathers because they weren't advocating daos, just raising awareness! starting the conversation! they agreed with me!
(trilema) Mocky: my poor self video skills yielded only my chin basically!
(trilema) Mocky: just got back from blockchain event. I told them their ideas of humanity 3.0 governed by blockchain smart contracts was a delusion. And then critcized both the ethereum-roll-backers and the ethereum-continue-with-broken-shit
(trilema) Mocky: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-05#1869576 >> I like it ok. I see now that I artificially capped my quality of life here by getting too-cheap accommodations. And that got amplified by not having power and internet anywhere else.
(trilema) Mocky: anyway, i'm off to this DAO / blockchain meetup. couldnt' scare up a camera crew so I guess i'll have to film myself
(trilema) Mocky: I expect to work the phones to find this guy
(trilema) Mocky: felt like "yeah he's a mile down the road, can't miss it"
(trilema) Mocky: i'm also skeptical that he's there. i was told by 8 20-something arabs lounging around the lobby desk bored. they had to call over the 9th who was the only one who could speak broken english
(trilema) Mocky: i didn't ahve time to make it over there before ministry closes at 2pm, sigh
(trilema) Mocky: at the other building, they told me he's at commercial bank plaza (home of servcorp coworks)
(trilema) Mocky: went down to the ministry of transportation and communitications today to book an appointment. they told me he wasn't at that building but the other ministry building
(trilema) Mocky: Assistant Undersecretary, Information Technology
(trilema) Mocky: speaking of weight in diamnonds, I find the guy I should be talking to here: Hassan Al-Sayed
(trilema) Mocky: how much?
(trilema) Mocky: the mp hot seat
(trilema) Mocky: i see it
(trilema) Mocky: hardware baked with a specific algo, not generall purpose
(trilema) Mocky: nominally because neighbors claim 'allowed terrorist donations' but i don't know the actual why
(trilema) Mocky: i can't think of a good why not
(trilema) Mocky: well power of 2 values i see
(trilema) Mocky: 64 bit bus and iirc 32 bit registers, typically
(trilema) Mocky: I don't know rsa maths well enough to say
(trilema) Mocky: oh, that's what i meant by operand size, the unit the processor is woking with
(trilema) Mocky: if a fetch from memory grabs 32 bits, and the data is 32 bits on the memory side and the register side then you don't need the switch
(trilema) Mocky: same thing on the other end of the bus
(trilema) Mocky: the unit size of memory addresses
(trilema) Mocky: the operand size for cpu instructions
(trilema) Mocky: i see it
(trilema) Mocky: like a left and right register?
(trilema) Mocky: i'm trying to see it
(trilema) Mocky: operands have to be fetched and results stored along the bus before and after each processor op
(trilema) Mocky: a named local storage location
(trilema) Mocky: yes it does
(trilema) Mocky: it's on a board, between chips
(trilema) Mocky: a data pathway
(trilema) Mocky: I think I understand but the more examples the better
(trilema) Mocky: like your computers are shitty but you could remedy that?
(trilema) Mocky: what do you mean by tech transfer?
(trilema) Mocky: re bikers, some of these guys seem so happy to just *have* the bike. i have neighbor who fires his up every 3rd day and twists the throttle for 5 minutes while it sits. but maybe it's to scare all the cats away
(trilema) Mocky: good morning mircea_popescu
(trilema) Mocky: ^ Ok this is my last post of the night. Going to sleep now
(trilema) Mocky: more like trust Allah and don't be the faithless one studying knots
(trilema) Mocky: oh, thank you
(trilema) Mocky: i guess so
(trilema) Mocky: not supported yet
(trilema) Mocky: hey! i didn't want to wasted time implementing a big comment thing when i get 1 comment per month
(trilema) Mocky: I don't have moderate per se. I have a manual process where by if i type in "pull-comments.sh" i see if there are new comments to manually copy paste into the document
(trilema) Mocky: mircea_popescu, I've spent the day going over and cleaning up my outstanding notes to date. I have 6 blog posts that will be dropping the last of which is my evaluation of where I'm currently at with this thing.
(trilema) Mocky: just got a nibble on my BTC ad, someone created an account named SyedAlthaf 20 minutes ago and opened a cash buy of 500 QR worth. But then cancelled trade 1 minute later.
(trilema) Mocky: one hotel has chineese only hookers, which... who wants this lol. but someone must be buying
(trilema) Mocky: its either hotels, bars or online, bars an online are freelancers
(trilema) Mocky: the hotels do. hotels need a way to distance themselves from the occasionaly law enforcement, scapegoat
(trilema) Mocky: the price for rich oil duded swimming in the worlds densest sausage party
(trilema) Mocky: no that's converted to USD, 2000 QR / hr
(trilema) Mocky: everyone else starts at 425 / hr, but will jump at much less
(trilema) Mocky: 20 something attractive white euros 500 / hr and wont negotiate down
(trilema) Mocky: well i don't know but they don't tell me to fuck off, no matter how much i ask them but never agree to pay
(trilema) Mocky: the fun thing is, like any salesman they *have* to talk to you and answer your questions if they think you'll buy
(trilema) Mocky: what would be considered a normal rate for an hour with a whore? i don't know anything about how things are elsewhere
(trilema) Mocky: and then the whores, oh my god, imma have to do a post on that
(trilema) Mocky: not allowed to leave house but one day a week, even then with cerfew
(trilema) Mocky: the 75/25 male female ratio is actually a lot worse than that, given how locked down a lot of the domestic female workers are
(trilema) Mocky: filipinas have like 50% obesity rate here in my estimation
(trilema) Mocky: no idea, but given the excess mass, i don't think any cock is on the table
(trilema) Mocky: she was 'too busy' after meeting me once
(trilema) Mocky: she's not speaking to me anymore. i've got a few days to get one of these other chicks to do it tho
(trilema) Mocky: hell yeah
(trilema) Mocky: the dude who messaged me from luxemburg wanting to buy coin
(trilema) Mocky: i trolled him, he seemed pissed :)
(trilema) Mocky: he still has the same number of trades (12) as when i first spied him in sept.
(trilema) Mocky: hasn't been up since
(trilema) Mocky: i can still buy btc from the one guy, presumably. but the other guy pulled his ad before I got the coin into my account there
(trilema) Mocky: yeah! he disappeared
(trilema) Mocky: but serveral dudes from luxembuourg want's to buy bitcoin from me
(trilema) Mocky: in terms of actual traders, the guy actually trading on localbitcoins pulled his ad. So I posted my own ad up. It's been up for some time now, more than a week i think. no locals contacted me yet
(trilema) Mocky: this seems to be the only group that actually does anything
(trilema) Mocky: mircea_popescu, there's a "gulf blockchain foundation" meet up in three days I'm going to. two speaks giving talks then mingle time: "Governance: DAOs and traditional governance" and "Proof of scam: Drawing the line between the good and the bad"
(trilema) Mocky: you meet someone new and don't know who they are, they could be anything
(trilema) Mocky: such strategy
(trilema) Mocky: unrelatedly, "In its IPO prospectus, Qatar Aluminium Manufacturing Company said one of the strategic objectives is to maximize shareholder returns by increasing financial returns." -Gulf Times fishwrap
(trilema) Mocky: but there's no way this kind of spade work is going to be harder than trying to wrap my head around code for hours. I always came out on top of the code, so what I'm not gonna figure out how to talk to people if actually try?
(trilema) Mocky: i know about raising kids, now that they are grown. and I know about java now that I'm sick of it
(trilema) Mocky: I didn't have any more experience talking to orcs than chatting up chicks or writing c++, or rebuilding my bike engine back in the day, or fixing a million and one things for the first time. I don't know shit about shit. I never did
(trilema) Mocky: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-01#1868297 >> congrats, ur the first person to leave a nameless comment on my blog. I may have to update my cgi to complain now
(trilema) Mocky: mircea_popescu, ok, thx
(trilema) Mocky: orange tint that my eyes seemingly adjusted for
(trilema) Mocky: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-11#1860606 << btw mystery solved, once I discovered my window opens: https://imgur.com/a/s8q4SHE
(trilema) Mocky: lol, so mean!
(trilema) Mocky: I have more blog posts churning thru the pipeline atm, mostly written for some days now. photo handling jammed up my process
(trilema) Mocky: wouldn't that require sync'd clock cycles?
(trilema) Mocky: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-29#1866992 >> using a variation this algo you can stuff a block half full of bits without any 2 consecutive bits being from a known plaintext, while the accumulating xor prevents the penguin
(trilema) Mocky: or a more direct counter argument: A xor A = 0
(trilema) Mocky: mircea_popescu, do you have any interest in kuwait? if so I can keep this lead warm on the back burner while I work qatar
(trilema) Mocky: good morning
(trilema) Mocky: they eyes are closing, passing out in 3... 2..
(trilema) Mocky: she works for army inteligence on the us base here. had to listen to 30 minutes of snoweden hatred
(trilema) Mocky: told me how to get liquor there, that it's not 'dry' like it's claimed, lol
(trilema) Mocky: apparently kuwait computers are shit and one chick knows another chick who runs "cyber security" for a kuwaiti / iraqi company, has been in there for 30 years, knows everyone in the biz. promised me a kuwaiti business sponsor if I actually know anything about computer security, put her number in my phone for me, and texted her to expect contact from me
(trilema) Mocky: got 3 good leads for qatari introductions. and a kuwait lead thrust upon me
(trilema) Mocky: socializing at fancy bar / restaurant for 5 hours. just got back home, about to pass out
(trilema) Mocky: oh my god BingoBoingo I'm so fucking tired
(trilema) Mocky: now if trump had promised to build a wall around D.C., then may have voted lol
(trilema) Mocky: BingoBoingo, met up with a canadian teacher today who asked *me* if I voted for trump, i told her she was funny
(trilema) Mocky: yeah today was day 15/56 so 41 to go
(trilema) Mocky: i'll hit some people up tonight and I'll be hanging with a few dozen westerners tomorrow night at the four seasons, i'll bring it up there too
(trilema) Mocky: yeah something physical in hand that already works probably would be good cred
(trilema) Mocky: and it has god dammed flashing lights too, no?
(trilema) Mocky: you need a physical office space to be inspected to get the trade license and open company, so external not needed for that
(trilema) Mocky: Ok i'll find out and report back
(trilema) Mocky: otherwise it gets stuck in customs i hear
(trilema) Mocky: I think I can open an account with some specific company locally and have receive dhl shipments. it's how they get stuff from amazon
(trilema) Mocky: no I do not
(trilema) Mocky: they have money here and there are a lot things that are notdumb. especially when compared to africa
(trilema) Mocky: also i was surprised to hear nigerians talking about how dumb nigerians are. how they have money in nigeria but they are to dumb to do anything useful with it
(trilema) Mocky: no dude, they have fambly there who love it. they would love too!
(trilema) Mocky: they are in qatar cuz they lost the lottery for who gets to go to usa
(trilema) Mocky: unrelatedly, the miami in these filipinas and africans is off the fucking charts. they literally cannot sniff even a whiff of 'america aint that great' without spitting out 'america is the best, how could you even think it's not'
(trilema) Mocky: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-24#1865522 >> plus then you either have to reverse the pad for one, or maintain a bit of state for top-eater vs bottom-eater
(trilema) Mocky: the simplicity of otp is appealing, and knowing that no one is sitting on a back door
(trilema) Mocky: oh right
(trilema) Mocky: hows the ack look like, a hash?
(trilema) Mocky: so have to store block you most recently ack'd as well, to detect resend
(trilema) Mocky: ok, i don't see a hole in it
(trilema) Mocky: is the last ciphered block stored on disk?
(trilema) Mocky: ack is sent but never received
(trilema) Mocky: still have to handle unexpected disconnects tho right?
(trilema) Mocky: and is block number sent or assumed next available?
(trilema) Mocky: but also by ensuring material is not ever reused
(trilema) Mocky: yeah but that card took 2 months for FG x10 to fill, no?
(trilema) Mocky: ah yes, i see the 2 cards angle now
(trilema) Mocky: i'm not familiar with off-the-shelf ethernet-to-rs232 box, but it sounds self explanatory
(trilema) Mocky: yup, or fill two over lunch together and each walk away with identical copy
(trilema) Mocky: sd card slot has merit. for iron otptron even two slots is not going overboard imo if it doesn't overcomplicate the design, since generally will need two copies and may prefer not to plug into general purpose comp
(trilema) Mocky: self inflicted vitiligo, not good if you have a wide nose, lol
(trilema) Mocky: makes me wonder what i'd look like white! :D
(trilema) Mocky: yes, a few of them. but waffles here are like a desert gimmick, covered in thick layers of chocolate sauce or the like. they don't take this shit serious
(trilema) Mocky: oh and in more important news, i got a line on where to buy a waffle maker here. went to the store and they actually do sell them. but ... sold out. which is probably for the best since they were selling a model worth 17$ that makes one at a time for 80$
(trilema) Mocky: that's where it starts, next thing you know you're in some strange country
(trilema) Mocky: it's funny to see "face whitening cream" on the grocery shelf next to shaving cream and tooth brushes. i always assumed it was just michael jackson and brown chicks with dark blemishes wanting to bleach skin
(trilema) Mocky: even got a pic of indian on a ladder on my bed holding AC unit over head
(trilema) Mocky: and 3 hours later COLD AIR!! lol
(trilema) Mocky: working with programmers is hard, they constantly tell you why all your ideas are terrible, if any business person who can self teach vb / php can deliver "value" to manager without pesky programmer problems
(trilema) Mocky: with some minor exceptions like mp's random home page & 404 & partial url matching
(trilema) Mocky: yeah, pretty far down the list
(trilema) Mocky: not hand rolled, jbake. like java version of jekyll
(trilema) Mocky: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-22#1865071 >> I'm totally with you on that. I already "recompile" my whole site from src ascii docs when publishing every post and takes more than 10s
(trilema) Mocky: only rarely fiddled with if you have actual things to do, fiddled endlessly when activity substitutes for usefulness
(trilema) Mocky: vb "programmers"
(trilema) Mocky: I've met a ton of excel lovers who think php is fantastic. seems to appeal greatly to a certain type
(trilema) Mocky: i can't stomach php, which probably sounds rich coming from hardcore java dude. my www is static files and one old school cgi to python for comments
(trilema) Mocky: also, central air units don't feed the chumpatron. room units: huge market constantly turning, repairmen "fixing", "workers" installing, refurbishers
(trilema) Mocky: maybe qataris have central air and only orc horde has room units, haven't been there yet
(trilema) Mocky: qataris have maid, nanny, gardener, driver, tutor, butler pretty sure one could have 'change filter' on worklist
(trilema) Mocky: most malls here are posh, yeah, central air
(trilema) Mocky: re blockchainers, im going to try to get them to schedule an event with me as the speaker
(trilema) Mocky: no, i have it on me. no need
(trilema) Mocky: I'm going to try buying a benjie's worth from one and selling it the other just to meet them
(trilema) Mocky: i don't recall it
(trilema) Mocky: place i was in had 1940's newspaper in the walls
(trilema) Mocky: i've lived in a couple old houses with ancient plaster. it would chip and crumble pretty easily
(trilema) Mocky: could be plaster over cinder block
(trilema) Mocky: they say it's not concrete, that only exterior walls are concrete. but it looks and feels like concrete to me. i can't understand what they are calling it, "tabukla" ?
(trilema) Mocky: i dont' know what these interior walls are made of but they are prying nails out with hammer without damaging it. def not like back home
(trilema) Mocky: they live in constant misery, mostly leaving after a short time
(trilema) Mocky: in other observations, social pantsuits stand out like a sore thumb here. they can't stomach the "racism" "classism" "mistreatment" "conditions for local women". it's a constant irritant to them, they can't figure out how anyone here sleeps at night being party to such things
(trilema) Mocky: i feel bad for my host, trying to get my ac fixed while dealing with these clowns, and thinks i'm just being gracious by saying it's not been bothering me
(trilema) Mocky: "AR General Cool" lol
(trilema) Mocky: lol they promised "samsung AC" but brought brandless chinesium claiming "this is the expensive one"
(trilema) Mocky: and upgrade from the chair they used the first time
(trilema) Mocky: considering that they are too short to reach the unit and put ladder on my bed to reach the install point!
(trilema) Mocky: this should be fun
(trilema) Mocky: oh hey, the 3 indians return with a new ac unit 8:30pm. now arguing with my nigerian host over having brought a different brand
(trilema) Mocky: pretty sure I smell like old married guy, lol
(trilema) Mocky: maybe if i had couple girls to polish the dust off my crown as i walk from the bar to the pool...
(trilema) Mocky: i don't know shit about bdsm
(trilema) Mocky: i've been doing java for 20 years
(trilema) Mocky: mircea_popescu, yeah next chapter titled "depeche mode at the four seasons"
(trilema) Mocky: "volatility" "use in malware attacks" stated reasons
(trilema) Mocky: asciilifeform, I was told they have gold brick atms here
(trilema) Mocky: unlike london where I coudn't place any cars
(trilema) Mocky: and some vw looking toyota busses
(trilema) Mocky: all the cars here are normal models you'd find in the us, except there are a few toyota models I've never heard of: "fortuner" is one
(trilema) Mocky: if I had my ford expedition here, I'd be the king of the road. land rovers are a good bit smaller
(trilema) Mocky: also, that could be good advice in general
(trilema) Mocky: vehicle size seems a status symbol. "if a bigger one is speeding up from behind, get out of the way!"
(trilema) Mocky: to my eyes, uniform includes shiny watch and a landrover, or lexus suv (with which to intimidate slave labor on the roadway)
(trilema) Mocky: *lots* of jewelry stores here with shiny watches
(trilema) Mocky: i'd fucking rock a crown
(trilema) Mocky: i'm not wise to the ways of watches, wouldn't recognize a rolex. "shiny watch" works for my description
(trilema) Mocky: well when everyone wears the exact same white robes everyday, a watch is pretty much only place on the body for bling
(trilema) Mocky: I still have 4 leads to finish chasing down re not needing a Qatari to form a company. not necessarily promising leads but still need to get to the truth of them
(trilema) Mocky: still broke, but it still isnt' a problem. fan blows on me and I sleep fine. 3 day of rain in the dessert. got soaked today waiting for taxi for 30 minutes during downpour which stopped the moment i got in the cab
(trilema) Mocky: greetings
(trilema) Mocky: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-21#1864601 >> there are some important things that are going to be brought to life by the republic and sure as shit they aren't gonna wait for Qatar to buy in. rather, if the outward appearance is correct and there are men of valor here who can recognize the opportunity then this will be their chance to play host to some business and profit exactly to the degree of their continued valor and foresight and not one riyal more
(trilema) Mocky: lol, why not stomp with boot heel :D
(trilema) Mocky: so far so good. gotta see how well I fit in at these 5 star hotels
(trilema) Mocky: hiya mircea_popescu
(trilema) Mocky: So can be replaced individually i bet! lol
(trilema) Mocky: yup, but seems like central air in homes is pretty rare. wallmounted units are the thing, with compressors on the roof.
(trilema) Mocky: yeah, but not a big deal for me. I wouldn't want to be a landlord here tho
(trilema) Mocky: no, i'm subletting a room via airbnb from a nigerian who rents it from someone who also sounds african on speakerphone. and thankfully unseasonably cool with now 2 years worth of rain in the last 2 days
(trilema) Mocky: so, working on day 3 of no AC. Everyone I mention it to here laughs at me and says that no repair men here actually know how to fix anything, only to install new. AC, cars, computers, machinery. They just spend hours spinning bs to talk you into buying new.
(trilema) Mocky: BingoBoingo, isn't bubble gum flavor just as gross?
(trilema) Mocky: I'm still not used to friday and saturday being the weekend & so many places being closed between 1pm and 4pm every day
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