Hide Idle (>14 d.) Chans
← 2018-09-05 | 2018-09-07 → ↓
a111: Logged on 2016-01-20 13:16 mircea_popescu: whenever man sits down to do anything, man discovers that he is in all likelihood the first man to have ever sat down to do that one thing.
diana_coman: mod6, cheers!
diana_coman: BingoBoingo, congrats on new position and looking forward to Pizarro's next moves to attract more customers
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2018/09/seehofer-would-have-joined-anti-immigrant-anti-merkel-protests/ << Qntra - Seehofer: "Would Have Joined" Anti-Immigrant Anti-Merkel Protests
BingoBoingo: diana_coman: ty, gears are grinding to spin up something
mod6: mornin'
Mocky: Hey mod6, how goes?
mod6: nb!
mod6: How's everything goin with you?
mod6: (one of these days I gotta try out your miner.)
Mocky: great, uncovering the depth of local bitcoin market
Mocky: turns out, in NC you can make btc traders eyes pop out of their head by uttering the words 'two bitcoin'
BingoBoingo: !!invoice mircea_popescu 0.05780660 S.MG Test Machine (UY3) through September 2018
BingoBoingo: !!invoice jurov 0.02100815 BTC Foundation Colo (monthly) through September 2018
BingoBoingo: !!invoice trinque 0.02300815 Colo + Shared Hosting through September 2018
BingoBoingo: !!v 2B271652E670F5629C5FA0061EE7D2695FD34DA8BFC718C9EA59C192DF105D47
deedbot: Invoiced mircea_popescu 0.05780660 << S.MG Test Machine (UY3) through September 2018
BingoBoingo: !!v D74FEDE4149A1DF4FE7E7AC018BBF28B20D06164CB0D24F4AD358911AD75394F
deedbot: Invoiced jurov 0.02100815 << BTC Foundation Colo (monthly) through September 2018
BingoBoingo: !!v 5CF40430A311D4A4630B174E6CFEB63D48CBD6228ACFCDE68623E75BF614F8DC
deedbot: Invoiced trinque 0.02300815 << Colo + Shared Hosting through September 2018
BingoBoingo: And mod6 will invoice me for the Rockchip tonight
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-06#1848300 << if you go to dc say hi to either asciilifeform or pdf. or both!
a111: Logged on 2018-09-06 14:54 Mocky: turns out, in NC you can make btc traders eyes pop out of their head by uttering the words 'two bitcoin'
mircea_popescu: Mocky don't do it in a single trade, it's unseemly.
Mocky: was shooting for half a dozen trades, but got an introduction to local trader via meat wot and I mentioned the total I'm selling
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform remind me again, which is the short story with the "intelligence handicaps", loud whistles in ears and whatnot ?
mircea_popescu: Mocky bear in mind that you live in gangland, and for some incomprehensible reason the mob decided to steal all moneys.
a111: Logged on 2014-03-05 19:51 asciilifeform: 'harrison bergeron' (k. vonnegut)
mod6: Thanks BingoBoingo!
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: seekrit plot to save $B's from ru budget!1111
asciilifeform: ( aint as if the boondoggle-station comes with dealership replacement warranty... )
mircea_popescu: ah man that's a fucking relief.
asciilifeform: woah mega-txt
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2018/surprised-by-joy-the-shape-of-my-early-life-adnotated/ << Trilema - Surprised By Joy -- The shape of my early life. Adnotated.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, it seems to have replaced "rr" with "nn"? "innelevant" and "annives" , it gets arroying after a while
mircea_popescu: dumbass scanner.
mircea_popescu: anyway, fixed those, lemme know if moar.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-05 16:31 mircea_popescu: there's a bit in the piece i am working right now which i'd like to reference ehre.
diana_coman: working through it, pass 1; anyways: "sunnoundings"
diana_coman: and "connesponding"
BingoBoingo: In other Throw Back Thursday, the Koreans bought CCP, the Eve Online developer
mircea_popescu: that thing still existrs ?
mircea_popescu: diana_coman further fixed ; say if you see even mora
BingoBoingo: Apparently it does
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2018/09/pantsuit-activist-and-lula-apologist-stabs-gravely-wounds-brasilero-great-again-candidate-jair-bolsonaro/ << Qntra - Pantsuit Activist And Lula Apologist Stabs, Gravely Wounds Brasilero Great Again Candidate Jair Bolsonaro
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: funnily enuff, asciilifeform's intake of c. s. lewis was in 1991, he was not printed afaik in su, but hey, perestroika, and suddenly translated and printed on toiletpaper and sold at fleamarket by crypto-evangiderps. brother picked up the series, i barfed on vol.2 where lion jizzus dies 'for our sins', fin.
mircea_popescu: is this the middle earth one, the battlestar one, or which one is he anyway ?
asciilifeform: the narnia series.
asciilifeform: ( and buncha unrelated , e.g. 'screwtape letters', possibly his 1 decent item )
mircea_popescu: jesus i didn't even read that one.
mircea_popescu: so it's not the guy who "invented" orcs ?
asciilifeform: 0 orcs in csl.
mircea_popescu: so not the whole lord of the ring thing ?
asciilifeform: that was his bottle buddy j.r.r.t.
asciilifeform: ( jrrt, funnily, was the catholic )
BingoBoingo: In other news, look at the "preferred" rate on the Argentine peso: 0.56-1.16 or in dollares 59.29-27.413
mircea_popescu: well, my recipient for this stuff is well empty, and i suspect it takes a while to refill.
asciilifeform: jrrt by some accounts did not even set out to write fiction, he was linguist, wanted some place to dump his conlangolade.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo is this a good thing ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and a papist!!!
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, Argentine peso is solidly worse than Uruguayo peso now and keeps diving. 60 pesos Argentinos to buy a USD
mircea_popescu: that must rankle the argentards.
BingoBoingo: And how
mircea_popescu: (trump was proferring his "full support": for macri at the fmi. thoiugh i much doubt the fmi has any money to burn on that dead end)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what was it at the time of c3, 13 ar.peso / 1 $ ?
mircea_popescu: up from 8.
asciilifeform recalls mircea_popescu wandering off, 'brb, buying some 8bux billz'
mircea_popescu: was 16 by the time i left, and i see coupla years ago it well... OFFICIALLY almost doubled, really more than tripled.
BingoBoingo: When I got here it was ~20 to 25
mircea_popescu: one of the most satisfying things i ever did in my entire life was contribute my contribution to the ending of that shithole.
mircea_popescu: hopefully they venezuela before tghe decade's out.
asciilifeform: iirc they venezuelaed as recently as '01. (shitholes apparently are rechargeable)
mircea_popescu: didn't last nearly enough.
BingoBoingo: August ended with the Argentine pesos still floating near parity with the peso Uruguayp http://bingology.net/2018/08/27/peso-watch-august-edition/
asciilifeform: oh hey retitled
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: 301'd
mircea_popescu: i hope they starve ; to the last man.
BingoBoingo: Well, Chinese are buying all their frozen cows and Turks with their issues are still buying all their standing cows
asciilifeform: somehow this never seems to happen to bankrupt orcistans, instead usg prints a few extra pallets and buys'em
asciilifeform: ( the point of doing this, escapes me , but seems to be the rule )
mircea_popescu: oh, us buying argentina ? yes, please.
mircea_popescu: i can take argentines starving slightly later if they sink usg along.
BingoBoingo: They can have nothing together!
mircea_popescu: purrfect!
asciilifeform: it'd even begin to make sense if they bought'em up to make long pig pepperoni. but no, they buy to 'biznis as usual'
BingoBoingo: Walmartists will love Argentine flavored plasticrap!
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: lol wat plastic. i dun think the ar folx at this point can even make molds.
asciilifeform: where was that mircea_popescu piece, with the electric heaters
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: AHA, that's how you identify Argentine plasticrap! Clearly out of spec
asciilifeform: the ones with charred crud where the thermosetting plastic might otherwise be
mircea_popescu: really the two idiotistans are made for one another.
mircea_popescu: comparably large, too!
BingoBoingo: Comparably empty
mod6: !!invoice BingoBoingo 0.03335804 Pizarro Invoice for Quarterly RockChip rental through December 31st 2018
mod6: yw
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: didja ever do a brazil piece ?
mircea_popescu: i did some brazillian pieces, but never actually visited brazil.
asciilifeform: asciilifeform is specifically curious, re why brazil, afaik the 1 serious country in the whole landmass, is also half dour shithole ( asciilifeform's extended wot includes at least 1 d00d who went to brazil for physics conf and came back as 'cargo 200' , so i suspect the reputation aint entirely mythical )
mircea_popescu: i was going to go to rio, for about the same sort of "oh, great party!" naivite that had me go to argentina. in the light of experience i had the relevant parts researched, and now i know i don't want to go to the rio festival in the late 2010s anymore than i want to buy real estate in miami.
mircea_popescu: if the year were 1918, i'd definitely go. as it is, holy shit no.
BingoBoingo: That meshes with what I hear of Rio
asciilifeform: hey, street punks with ak's, caterpillars that bind cholinesterase on contact, zika, what's not to like!111
BingoBoingo: They apparently have a lot of blue/pink haired fattys now
mod6: !!v 9EA51737802D7E8C7221B73DC5FB90F343C2CDB62E5F77F65385F152B7E7CE85
deedbot: Invoiced BingoBoingo 0.03335804 << Pizarro Invoice for Quarterly RockChip rental through December 31st 2018
mircea_popescu: cheap negress & mulato whores dancing naked in the streets because why the hell not is one thing. but "organization" and pantsuitism-- never.
asciilifeform: oh ya and also these
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, this latest trilema piece references no less than fifty-six other trilema articles.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck would i do without this thing ?! trilema is not possible without itself.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> cheap negress & mulato whores dancing naked in the streets because why the hell not is one thing. but "organization" and pantsuitism-- never. << I have heard these places still exist in Brazil, but not from people who live there or who spend more than a couple days at a time.
mircea_popescu: and certainly not fucking rio, and certainly not during the festival.
mircea_popescu: but yes, "countryside". why the fuck would i bother, it's to ohot and too humid.
mircea_popescu: let them learn to irc.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> but yes, "countryside". why the fuck would i bother, it's to ohot and too humid. << This and the marijuana is why Uruguay gets away with pretending to have an economy
BingoBoingo: In still other news about 2 blocks away 10 construction workers fell, they just wanted to diy scaffolding...
BingoBoingo: Seriously, 7 meter fall from groundish level to the hole they were building in
BingoBoingo: Of course the inspectors are being very serious about how the wood scaffolding failed yesterday and not today
BingoBoingo: Construction site in question was on the Rambla so a bunch of one way streets were direction reversed to great confusion
mircea_popescu: they should never have told orcs about 1 way streets. they're not ready for the magic yet.
mircea_popescu: do you know how many fucking times it's happened here car was going on road, continued to go on road WHICH WAS NOW WRONG WAY ?!
BingoBoingo: Wasn't too bad for me. I walk
mircea_popescu: this is like "oh, cancer... i don't have it". MAYBE ONE DAY YOU DO MOTHERFUCKER!!1
mircea_popescu: what then!!! it'll suck!!!
BingoBoingo: Well, there also aren't cars here. And the policia was directing trafffic with their AK's so my first though was one of the Cambios was robbed
mircea_popescu: ahaha they give aks to traffic police ?!
BingoBoingo: Well, there's only one real police. Airport security is the airforce and water/beach security is the Navy/Tourism police
mircea_popescu imagines a proportional armament, "swat teams" equipped with plastic reproductions of Pumhart von Steyr, very Brasil-like visual.
BingoBoingo: The police here never know when they are going to have to babysit ATM refills
BingoBoingo: I am explaining to the Peruana that you have boats
mircea_popescu: does she ?
BingoBoingo: SHe does not, but you have yachts and baby turtles
mircea_popescu: and dragon fruit!
mircea_popescu: you ever had one of those things btw ?
BingoBoingo: I have not, ella no se como se dice esos en español
mircea_popescu: cactus fruit.
mircea_popescu: pitahaya*
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-06#1848344 << if they STILL don't burn down the us "embassy" / stick in the salt mines any lizzard-looking dork...
a111: Logged on 2018-09-06 23:29 deedbot: http://qntra.net/2018/09/pantsuit-activist-and-lula-apologist-stabs-gravely-wounds-brasilero-great-again-candidate-jair-bolsonaro/ << Qntra - Pantsuit Activist And Lula Apologist Stabs, Gravely Wounds Brasilero Great Again Candidate Jair Bolsonaro
← 2018-09-05 | 2018-09-07 → ↑
Random(trilema) | Download hourly DB snapshot | Get Source Code