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mircea_popescu: "I'll add that the majority of the people I email are male; the few women I've emailed haven't been any different. I've confirmed this by waiting a long time (month) and re-emailing a different (but still simple) version as a woman.
mircea_popescu: "My observation having done this several dozen times: If I use a (fake) male email address, e.g. "petermiller@" no one ever responds. If I use a (fake) female email address, e.g. "melissamiller@" I get answers almost every single time."
BingoBoingo: Well, I guess Hawaii wasn't quite US soil until after the war and even then moar volcanic ash than soil
mircea_popescu: i don't see the difference. obama 3rd term is probably a better outcome than trump vs hilary or w/e.,
mircea_popescu: need i continue ? v for vendetta
ben_vulpes: i'd love to know what americans find transformative.
mircea_popescu: i dunno man. the land itself is pretty.
mircea_popescu: "oh, google is a valuablke company because it has all the world's data". a) you are not the world ; b) nobody fucking wants your data, i'd rather keep footage of afids engaging in gang rape.
mircea_popescu: "oh, income equality". brazil has A LOT more of it than the us. in the us everyone is poor. i mean this, literally, there are NO RICH PEOPLE in the us. nobody is rich there. everyone is poor like a fucking dog, like the soviets were poor in 1980.
thestringpuller: "It's not material self-interest, it's that we're so sensitive. We experience ourselves through each other's eyes--and that's the reason for the labels and the clothes and the cars" << not sure how I feel about that reference quote
mircea_popescu: i fucking agree, that dumbass-that-s-not-to-be-named!
mircea_popescu: "As much as Sandra Bullock drives me insane I have never set fire to a trash can or impregnated a teenager because she made what is obviously way too much money for agreeing to be in the worst movies ever scripted by spider monkeys."
mircea_popescu: i watched five minutes of that thing, mostly to evaluate the douche's (larry) contriobution to seinfeld. i fell upon this scene where a pubescent girl rings his doorbell and then gets her first period. and he behaves like a lunatic.
mircea_popescu: no, sadly. i liked it originally. by the time i was done i squarely didn't like it anymore.
mircea_popescu: i don't either. but i did study that show, like meade studied gorilla cock or whatever the fuck she studied.
mircea_popescu: i guess you could readily say, seinfeld, baywatch, "dwfs" or whatever - i didn't look that one up, bite me - are the same thing.
mircea_popescu: i have to google ALL his dumbass popculture references, and that is ALL i ever have to chase. somehow the medicine he knows, i know. fucking "gosselin" ? i actually have to look at a phrase going "Katie Irene "Kate" Gosselin (born Kreider; born March 28, 1975) is an American television personality. She achieved national and international recognition on the US reality TV show Jon & Kate Plus 8, in which she and Jon Goss
mircea_popescu: "If I was a woman of, say, 30, overwhelmed by hidden ambivalence, making next to nothing while spending next to everything, simultaneously unfulfilled by my excellent material possessions while protected from facing my actual social position; if I had to choose a direction in life but realizing that my choice probably didn't matter because the outcome had already been decided by the audience, yeah, I'd be on Abilify, t
mircea_popescu: i thought it was thickasthieves
mircea_popescu: i expect also.
mircea_popescu: while im pretty sure the roof will support a dozen lithe chicks seeing how i can lift them in pairs,
jurov: i remembered one tanned-to-dark-chocolate pic of her
mircea_popescu: no i mean, sunroof as in, a floor without a roof on top of the building.
mircea_popescu: this is why you can't have nice things. i end up with them and i don't even like them.
ascii_field: (if there were a recovery prompt, as in normal sys5-style init, it would be fixable. as it is, whole thing - os lives on nand flash for which i haven't the emergency reflash clips - is a writeoff)
ascii_field: the lulzy part is that i lost (for all intents & purposes) a whole physical box to this
mircea_popescu: https://archive.is/J2ZkS#selection-623.68-623.103 << i lolled. Naphex that dude seriously didn't manage to repo his own servers ?
thestringpuller: yea, the employee stock plan, (giving us bonuses in stock, and offering pre-tax paycheck stock purchases), is essentially a stock warrant. i'm not invested in it, cause most of these companies tend to use employees as bagholders.
thestringpuller: mos def. but i find it scandalous if you use employees as bagholders...
mircea_popescu: but yes, i agree, it's a waste.
ben_vulpes: strikes me as a colossal waste of time, but then again i'm not a fantastically wealthy financier.
mircea_popescu: i have the blessed chomsky advantage. apparently this is rare, but, i don't mind bothering people.
ben_vulpes: yeah but i also don't care to have that conversation every single day
mircea_popescu: "oh but being a slave is bad!11". sure. except if you believe this someone will extract value out of you by calling it something else. "but i already do that, you think this brand name medicine is worth the difference from generics ?" right-o.
ben_vulpes: "i don't care how long you sleep or how long it takes you but this place better be clean and my underwear rolled in that drawer"
mircea_popescu: what's wrong with just introducing yourself as "domestic slave" ? oh, i saw that in a film once. better call it "housewife"
ben_vulpes: i value the place's cleanliness, tidiness and general quality of things and food around
ben_vulpes: i just glare
shinohai: https://i.imgur.com/LtNriik.png <<< truth
BingoBoingo: This season as a whole I think so far matches their best single episodes in the bast
BingoBoingo: punkman: I think they got the season long storyline thing down now after trying it last year.
mircea_popescu: from what i gather the latter behaviour is mostly human-reactive.
mircea_popescu: i never saw it.
mircea_popescu: sure, they have some value as rat substitutes for biological/biochemistry research. not much from what i can tell, rats are cheaper and faster.
mircea_popescu: i also don't happen to think that "anthropology" conducted on the various types of monkey has any value whatsoever. it's roughly on the level of freud's practice, bored rich impotent folk want to play with their cock "elevatedly".
mircea_popescu: all through the "endangered gorillas" craze of the 90s all i could think was "these people seriously need better hobbies"
BingoBoingo: I'm indifferent to monkeys. Part of me says lets get rid of this disease vector. Another part wonders what they did to me other than Obola.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo just between you and me and anyone who might care to listen in, i don't like monkeys. none, at all. would not object to a plan to exterminate all monkey types, nor do i see much value in preservation of images, records and such.
mircea_popescu: im not disputing that the system works within its own logic. i'm merely saying, that "logic" is neither self aware nor to be approached like a human endeavour. it's monkey business, bring chisels.
mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/01/the_massacre_of_the_unicorns_i.html << omfg this is the epiphany of all time. observe this insanity at work :
BingoBoingo: Does the vague "I like Bitcoin" thing instead of the Mike Tyson "I need to keep the heat on this winter, and scamzors are paying" thing.
pete_dushenski: au contraire, i just don't play with wimminz who aren't sufficiently independent and self-made to warrant losing their maiden names !
pete_dushenski: ftr the only 'mrs. dushenski' in this city is one of my aunts. not even in meatwot as i rarely see her.
pete_dushenski: what am i, british ?
pete_dushenski: i'll keep that in my back pocket in case a particularly mundane stretch of parenting should eclipse :)
pete_dushenski: ha, tell me something i don't know
pete_dushenski: all's well but the claim that 'pete said i stole', for whatever that's worth, which probably isn't much truth be told
pete_dushenski: y asks me for feedback on an article. i tell him do 1-2-3-4 and we'll talk. no answer. more time passes. then he shows up here with 'pete said i stole but i didn't', which i happen to agree with. he plagiarised.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: ok so travispatron grabbed a quote from an article of mine without proper attribution or link. i wouldn't have known had he not left a comment on my original article with an embedded link back to his rip-off. the gall. anyways, i do up an 'unprofessional' article clarifying the do's and don't of blogging and commenting. he continues to ostrich. life goes on for another few months. he hoity-toitel
mircea_popescu: whole lotta "nothing can justify killing so lalalala i can't hear you whatever you say is gonna be 'can't logically and realistically link' blabla!11"
pete_dushenski: TravisPatron: pete_dushenski claims I stole << ftr you plagiarised, which is to stealing what not calling your sister back is to taking her virginity
mircea_popescu: lawski left because i canned his dumb ass.
liquidassets: fuck they want anyway, I'm so tuned out with the latest
pete_dushenski: i mean seats
pete_dushenski: i bet a few of them have mpex keys
liquidassets: excited I got my first shares of mpoe today
mircea_popescu: TravisPatron dun sweat it too much, i don't think pete_dushenski aims to be all that professional
TravisPatron: pete_dushenski claims I stole his article entitled 'Does Time Back Bitcoin or Bitcoin Back Time'. In response, he posted a completely uncalled for comment on our website - I responded by giving him due attribution to his article because his article sparked my interest - far from plagiarism. He then continued with rude comments and posted a completely unprofessional article on his Contravex blog. The article I wrote was never stol
pete_dushenski: i wanna see him step up the plate unassisted
pete_dushenski: namely, and i quote "1. Humbly submit before me, which is to say, drop the fake bullshit where you pretend like we’re equals and you play it all cool like I’m doing ~you~ some sort of favour by reading whatever shannonised shards you’ve cobbled together into sentences. 2. Acknowledge that the Internet most certainly has rules, and apologise publicly for your previous transgressions."
pete_dushenski: TravisPatron: i see you've skipped numbers 1 and 2 and shot over straight to 3 and 4 from my last letter to you. any plans to rectify this oversight ?
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-10-2015#1305029 << pic looks 50x better than ripped-off 'bitcoin backs time' video i skipped through a few months back. ☝︎
BingoBoingo: Figured maybe I'd be asleep and waking up to a convo in the logs would be a great way to start the morning
pete_dushenski: honestly, i'm absolutely flabbergasted that 'travispatron' showed up here and registered a key. like someone pick me up off the floor plox.
BingoBoingo: I think he has some sort of tiff with the Dushmaster. Easy come easy go.
mike_c: i mean, then you *have* to shoot up cannabis, right?
Lupul: How can I register with WoT?
mircea_popescu: i would bet the youboob's fulla them
mircea_popescu: i would guess it sees up to about 1cm
mircea_popescu: what instrument was this i wonder ? oral endoscope does display the vagina.
asciilifeform: idk if mircea_popescu ever tried this. but, just as i expected, it failed. minimal focus distance of the lens was not met.
BingoBoingo: I believe this is what webmarketing tards call "driving engagement"
mircea_popescu: in fact i just made this point to cab driver here who wanted to know "how the us really is" :
BingoBoingo: I'll drop a message and see if he replies.
ascii_field: l0l i never got snap5 and i fucking' paid
ascii_field: i met schmidt twice, once to buy machine, then some parts
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: from my distant perch i cannot say whether the butugychag school of thought has given amazon any advantage vs the other great halls'o'humancompilers.
mircea_popescu: jurovconsider i have there one cdg with q 465, storage shows 240 << grass is 60, q 100, and cft is 180, q 100. no idea why it shows 240, atm. but we KNOW that the prices shown are broken atm, and chetty was going to fix them, but then got some health problems. it's still on the list to fix, and will be fixed asap.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i only met a few of these folks. but they all said strictly same things, described something quite like the practices that breathed life into the labour unions of 100 years ago...
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i am willing to bet the complaints are ALL "oh we were defrauded, landlord kept our deposit and we didn't really piss on the parquet. it was not our fault!"
ascii_field: but, as i understand, they come in, and soon come out of the other end.
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: every escapee from 'amazon' i've personally spoken with, said essentially same thing: 'run like sov uranium mine'
mircea_popescu: but, i dun want you to walk away poor from the exercise either, so post an address an' i'll send you a bitdime or something.
mircea_popescu: but also, you shouldn't take this as a bad light on yourself, i think you did a reasonable job, just, the requirements are insanely tight.
ascii_field: ;;later tell ben_vulpes re: article: usg won't 'hand out cash' for the same reason that comcast et al doesn't actually promise 1Gb/s at 100% dutycycle. (the rest of it, i have failed to make sense of)
mircea_popescu: well, sadly, i can't use any of the stuff you produced so far. going through this latest one, it's still easier / faster for me to do the whole translation than to correct it.
gabrielradio: what say you mircea_popescu? am i suited for translating the old testament of trilema?
ascii_field: i forget where.
mircea_popescu: gabrielradio i just don't think it can be done.
gabrielradio: but in the case of the poem, time isn't the issue, and if he deems it unfit for translation in his own hand, i doubt it would make sense for me to try & translate it