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assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 02:34:49; asciilifeform: problem is, most folks asking for this kind of thing, have vastly overoptimistic idea of what can be expected from a single 
book and a reasonable amount of study.
 gernika: asciilifeform a 
book that connects pythagoras to newton, with proofs for all the nodes in between?
 nubbins`: order 
book looks condusive to another bitbet hedge
 pete_dushenski: "Nationwide The building society says its customers can withdraw up to £2,000 per account a day. “However, if they want to withdraw more than £500, it is best to pre-
book the amount with the branch to ensure that it has the cash available." << derp/
 mircea_popescu: ah such great country names for a 
book these'd be. checkoslavia. yugoslovakia. austrogermany.
 ben_vulpes: well, 'tis a 
book about licklider iiuc
 ben_vulpes: "struggle session" << anyone have any decent literature? the only thing i can recall offhand is the 
book White Swans.
 gribble: Error: For identification purposes, you must be identified via GPG to use the order 
book.
 mircea_popescu: and besides, who cares abnout eiother of these two. you just taker the whole plum 
book and execute it all.
 jurov: but really, my brain had meltdown trying to reconstruct what went down on mpex order 
book in that time :(
 mats: 21:57:42 — +funkenstein_ stood shoulder to shoulder in packed train today comfortably reading 
book << reminds me when i'd catch a nap in the cattle car during movements between barracks and training site, fully burdened by gear and supported on all sides by other dudes
 funkenstein_ stood shoulder to shoulder in packed train today comfortably reading 
book mats: is there any way to look at the active mpoe order 
book (ie, the way 'mpexbot' used to spit 'em out with '$depth <asset>')?
 assbot: A detailed review of the 
book: ‘A Disgrace to the Profession’, by Mark Steyn | Watts Up With That? ... ( 
http://bit.ly/1VviPqz )
  mircea_popescu: alfie stop telling yourself stories and read the 
book of nature instead.
 trinque: lol, I'd assumed the 
book was published somewhere with a sense of humor
 assbot: Logged on 27-08-2015 19:57:22; moonpunter: but vietnam was a real war in my 
book.
 mircea_popescu: you probably read the fucking eskimo 
book of the dead, on occasion.
 trinque: right, merely selecting one from the procedure 
book assbot: Logged on 21-08-2015 23:21:00; mircea_popescu: "Welcome, kiddo, to how the real world works. You go ahead and place your crazy protest bids way off in the bottom of the sociological order 
book and scream that someday, SOMEDAY, the market will come down to meet you, and you will be vindicated.
 mircea_popescu: "Welcome, kiddo, to how the real world works. You go ahead and place your crazy protest bids way off in the bottom of the sociological order 
book and scream that someday, SOMEDAY, the market will come down to meet you, and you will be vindicated.
 ☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎ gribble: Error: For identification purposes, you must be identified via GPG to use the order 
book.
 trinque: the kind of woman you can curl up with a 
book in
 ascii_field: mircea_popescu: recently, for lulz, i collected warez scans of every published 
book i could find with 'bitcoin' in the title
 mircea_popescu: lmao all the fucktarded jokes. "who makes the byline of a crypto 
book start with the workd unlocking?" "o'reilly executives"
 phf: i gave her "kniga oborotnya" and she concluded that the 
book was dull and poorly paced, which is something i agree with, probably my least favorite p 
book mats: order 
book currently looks like this: bids (0.00074712, 58500) (0.00071408, 57) (0.00071407, 21696) asks (0.00076799, 159300) (0.00079910, 35312) (0.0008, 32418)
 ascii_field: (srsly, mega-
book, worth at least a warez reading)
 punkman: clearly, it wasn't a very good 
book mats: if you're the guy pissing double digit share orders in the mpoe 
book, you suck
 funkenstein_: wow that looks like a mega-review, consistent with his recommendation for 
book reviewers linked earlier :)
 BingoBoingo: He published in 
book form a bunch of shit he got being one of the few people Nixon could talk Football with
 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform mind that these anecdotes in no way diminish the 
book mircea_popescu: "the editors" organized "on the other hand a good deal of reviewing, especially of novels, might well be done by amateurs. Nearly every 
book is capable of arousing passionate feeling, if it is only a passionate dislike, in some or other reader, whose ideas about it would surely be worth more than those of a bored professional"
 mircea_popescu:  the solution lies in getting 
book reviewing out of the hands of hacks. Books on specialised subjects ought to be dealt with by experts, and on the other hand a good deal of reviewing, especially of novels, might well be done by amateurs. Nearly every 
book is capable of arousing passionate feeling, if it is only a passionate dislike, in some or other reader, whose ideas about it would surely be worth more than those of
 mircea_popescu: "The great majority of reviews give an inadequate or misleading account of the 
book that is dealt with. Since the war publishers have been less able than before to twist the tails of literary editors and evoke a paean of praise for every 
book that they produce, but on the other hand the standard of reviewing has gone down owing to lack of space and other inconveniences. Seeing the results, people sometimes suggest that
 mircea_popescu: (commie romania had weirdo "to buy x you must also buy y" quota system to prop up the central economy. that particular 
book was outrageous in a country nobodyu owned as much as a raft, let alone yachts. so it became symbolic)
 mircea_popescu: "Three of these books deal with subjects of which he is so ignorant that he will have to read at least 50 pages if he is to avoid making some howler which will betray him not merely to the author (who of course knows all about the habits of 
book reviewers), but even to the general reader. "
 Adlai: well that's why 
book buying needs a wot just as much as pretty much anything else
 mircea_popescu: "Meanwhile, what is the actual amount that the British public spends on books? I cannot discover any figures, though no doubt they exist. But I do know that before the war this country was publishing annually about 15,000 books, which included reprints and school books. If as many as 10,000 copies of each 
book were soldand even allowing for the school books, this is probably a high estimate-the average person was on
 Adlai: "i don't think i smoked enough to pay for a decent 
book" << as though books are priced by content and not... who knows
 mircea_popescu: i don't think i smoked enough to pay for a decent 
book in those tobacco prices.
 Adlai: but a single piano is more expensive than most 
book collections
 mircea_popescu: The books that I have counted and priced are the ones I have here, in my flat. I have about an equal number stored in another place, so that I shall double the final figure in order to arrive at the complete amount. I have not counted oddments such as proof copies, defaced volumes, cheap paper-covered editions, pamphlets, or magazines, unless bound up into 
book form. Nor have I counted the kind of junky books-old schoo
 mircea_popescu: 
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-08-2015#1234555 << i was reading a "
book" written by some romanian twerp who thinks himself famous (stand up comedian / singer), sent to me by retired whore (really, if you whore and can't retire by 25 or so, you're too stupid to live) of my generation, for the purpose of "see mr p, i told you the kids are fucktarded". ie, kids, the next set.
 ☝︎ funkenstein_: lol :)  I absolutely recommend the 
book though, Malidoma Patrice Somé is the author
 funkenstein_: I just read great 
book "of water and the spirit".  Dagara youth taken by French missionaries, when he returns he is "too white" to be part of his villiage, forgot his language, etc.
 BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: 
Book also has danielpbarron's endorsement
 n6: and the unix 
book you told me about.
 funkenstein_: "Rev. Ivan Stang originally planned on suing the authors for plagiarizing content from the 
Book of the SubGenius, but then realized that Principia Discordia had been written several decades earlier and that the 
Book of the SubGenius had technically plagiarized Principia Discordia"
 mircea_popescu: phf it's funny to me, as a purely unconvinced observer of "culture" as a feeding epiphenomena, to notice just how fundamentally workable the whole species is. does it want a war ? it'll fucking fix the demographics and get it, and you can write any 
book you want - it'll help!
 nubbins`: i do have a lovely plough, cca 14th century tech, that can trim a phone 
book cleaner than the phone 
book factory does
 ascii_field: my imaginary bitcoin 
book was to be a work of 'literate programming'
 mircea_popescu: actually i have nfi why knuth's 
book isn't the basis of cs in the us.
 ascii_field: actually, the best 
book i have so far is in ru
 punkman: I grabbed a random Ada 
book last week, it was awful. need to look again
 trinque: at least with religious magical thinking it's anchored to a 
book.
 decimation: certainly usg is gonna throw the 
book at snowden - how could anyone in the civil service have sympathy?
 hanbot: well the way it usually works is that if you try to make the movie / tshirt / 
book of the concept you end up losing whatever profits.