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BingoBoingo: "
I needed to be somewhere by 6 p.m., and all of the active chargers were full.
I couldn't plug in all day," he said. "There was a Volt that appeared to be finished charging, so
I unplugged it so
I could get a half-hour boost. The Volt isn't pure electric -- it also has a gasoline engine. The next day,
I learned that the Volt owner was furious, and he sent out this email blast saying that
I stole his charge. It was awful."
ascii_field: BingoBoingo:
i almost expect there to appear some idiot rob-peter-pay-paul scheme where plebes' petrol cars have to spin wheels on a treadmill to charge some eloi's 'tesla', in lieu of parking fee, or the like
pete_dushenski: sounds like the green party needs me more than
i need them
pete_dushenski:
i'd sooner gamble on the outcome than show up to the booth
nubbins`:
i can't keep track. we had turkey yesterday
pete_dushenski: not happy about this shopping adventure. but
i guess
i'm not as rich as
i thought
i was.
shinohai:
I liked the writing style,
I bookmarked for future reading thanx!
mircea_popescu: tbh
i think his grasp of the fargo demographic is much better than his grasp of cali.
ascii_field: because
i do not personally walk around in it.
ascii_field: tlp's usa exists. but
i am stuck reading about it in the fishwrap.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: that was one of the times when
i thought 'wtf is this'
mircea_popescu: "If this seems implausible to you, which it must-- that's exactly the point of it-- consider the following extreme analogy, which surprisingly will be easier to understand, which is also the whole point: Say your father raped you repeatedly for a decade. Hold on, slow down, it gets worse: now you're 40, and he shows up asking you for $2400 because, and
I quote, "you have a responsibility to take care of me." There h
ascii_field: any other policy, not my place,
I am pointing out that doing it the way it's done protects the 1% by letting the Aspirational 14%-- who crave recognition and are easily identifiable and hatable because they are poseurs, just of a different kind-- act as human shields. They take the bullets, the unknown mega-rich take tinted window rides to the Hamptons.'
ascii_field: 'Here's the other side's example: when they talk about raising taxes on the rich, why do they pick a "low" point and push it higher? Should the highest rates be at $250k/yr? $300k? Another way of doing it, which is precisely why they cannot do it, is start at the top and move down. "We need $1T. Ok, top five guys pay 90%. Not enough? How about top ten guys pay 90%. Not enough? Top...."
I'm not advocating this or
mircea_popescu: he price of food stamps. Other correct responses would be $700/mo for "some high school" (SSI) or $1500/mo for "previous work experience" (unemployment).
I would have accepted $2000/mo for "minorities" (jail) for partial credit."
mircea_popescu: " Is there a natural economic equilibrium price where, say, a U Chicago grad can do no economically productive work at all but still be paid to use Instagram? Let me be explicit: my question is not should we do this, my question is that since this is precisely what's happening already, is it sustainable? What is the cost?
I don't have to run the numbers, someone already has: it's $150/mo for a college grads,
i.e. t
mircea_popescu: for that matter,
i can make a summary statement of calculus that reads exactly like timecube for the first half. after which it starts falling into place.
mircea_popescu: yeah yeah,
i like dating but hate crazy bitches. sure.
mircea_popescu: why do
i look at a woman's ass ? ask me that, go in the corner on knees on rice.
ascii_field:
i'm prepared to explain re: the pubkeys, it is really very simple
mircea_popescu: no qualms with that. and he who is in the driver seat is the driver. excuse me while
i don't stick around with sweving cars.
ascii_field: and here
i thought mircea_popescu believed in 'who is in the elite seat, is the elite'
mircea_popescu:
i loved the soviet system except for the parts where it deeply misunderstood elite.
mircea_popescu: or, as it more often the case "you know,
i still owe you on that grain deal. if only you actually wanted any of the shit
i have." "well actually
i'm moving to argentina" "omfg yes. would you like an apartment ?"
ascii_field:
i hear it's even cheaper if you inherit it...
phf: "how do
i put it in the terms you understand? an apartment for $300 a month. -- whoa! how do
i get that? -- sure, so 5 apartments in this building, 7 year contract,
i'll give you a 25% discount, that'll be $94.5k. my secretary will give your secretary ach routing details."
assbot: Logged on 12-10-2015 15:36:41; mircea_popescu: (thing is amusingly reminescent of how various people keep asking me what
i pay in rent and expect a number. as if that's how it fucking works, somehow.)
mircea_popescu: s, but a picture of a baby isn't more important than a picture of a car. "Yeah, but--"
I know. Logic is mean. "
mircea_popescu: "
I'll grant that there is some level of bonding that occurs between women over baby pictures, worth exploring later, but not for men: men will only (and rarely) show photos of their children doing something, the activity is what represents the kid as kid and them as a parent. Showing a man a baby picture is equivalent to showing a woman a picture of his car. "A #baby is more important than a car, dontcha think?" Ye
mircea_popescu: "However, not all women are the target demo of Randi's lip synching, the CEO of General Dynamics is a woman,
I think she has a higher security clearance than the entire Senate, and
I know for a fact she builds alien spaceships, why not interview her about how she uses social media to promote her brand and make connections and break ceilings? Because there's no Like button for hard work or triple integrals, which is do
mircea_popescu: so
i started on that medium article, by the 2nd paragraph
i was skimming, by the 8th or so
i bailed.
i guess not the demo.
mircea_popescu: (thing is amusingly reminescent of how various people keep asking me what
i pay in rent and expect a number. as if that's how it fucking works, somehow.)
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 12-10-2015 08:29:48; punkman:
I don't understand this
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-10-2015#1296821 << that's not the problem,
i don't need you to let me in. the problem is that you don't have the means to distinguish between one "humanities" and another humanities. that's the fucking problem. you can sort out a bad engineer in all of five minutes, just ask pointed questions.
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 12-10-2015 05:02:06; pete_dushenski:
i think selecting for science/engineering drop-outs (2+ years, not 1 week) would be more fruitful.
mircea_popescu: and the ones where
i stayed it was mostly because table and alcohol.
mircea_popescu:
i forgot what the one is where he fucks a woman's twennysomething daughter and then ends up marring the woman.
assbot: Logged on 12-10-2015 04:12:18; phf: pete_dushenski:
i don't know how successful kesey was at capturing the mind of a schizophrenic, but he certainly was good at relaying an inner state of an acid head. the movie is something else entirely, but still great, since it's basically jack nicholson playing his only role at his best.
hdbuck: mircea_popescu got it, ty, while im still at it, maybe you could enlighten me as therealbtf client.. how am
i supposed to make it work?
mircea_popescu: <hdbuck> maybe
i missed something << only half the shares get actually traded.
hdbuck: anyway, been a long time since
i lurked,
i think you guys are quite outsmarting the corporatist wannabes, and
i like the sorta outraging honesty approach. so thanks.
mike_c:
i'll add it to the todo list
hdbuck: thestringpuller yes sure,
i understand,
i’d still value some trade volumes to estimate the liquidity of the stocks there
hdbuck: yes,
i just created an account there, but
i mean,
i’d personally argue it lacks some charts, no offense tho.
hdbuck: also, as
i understand trading via irc allows mpex to be more resilient, woudltn it be nice tho to make a more user friendly website for, say more advertizing > traffic > trades > revenues ?
thestringpuller: mike_c: guess
I have to add up the shares sold by owner based on trilema
hdbuck:
i see, so the other half being hold by mp right?
hdbuck: ah
i see, any chance you would update them on btc-alpha? also volumes would be appreciated.
hdbuck: maybe
i missed something
jurov:
i learned that thanks to reptilia and his sauna conference :D
danielpbarron:
I don't know about this "acting range" of nicholson, but Chinatown is a great film staring him
punkman:
I'd go if the theme was "rosemary's baby" or something
punkman:
I guess that's fun if you are into soaps
assbot:
I do ... not really: young Argentinians spurn real weddings for fake ones | World news | The Guardian ... (
http://bit.ly/1G8aBRy )
pete_dushenski:
i think selecting for science/engineering drop-outs (2+ years, not 1 week) would be more fruitful.
☟︎ pete_dushenski: though why you'd want to specifically live next to the idjits like me too stubborn not to drop out,
i dunno
assbot: Logged on 12-10-2015 01:11:38; asciilifeform: say, '
i want to live only with folks who graduated with science degrees before 2010'
pete_dushenski: ya sorta figured as much. if
i wanted a propaganda movie
i'd watch triumph des willens again.
phf: same issue with the martian. a mix of obsessive askreddit style scientism with startrek handwaiving, lots of things explained through exposition dialogue, lots of feel good "america! nasa! feelings!". zero value as a movie.
i mean, there's an underdog character who Figures It Out and then he can be a complete aspy to The Big Boss, because he's now recognized as an authority
pete_dushenski: after 'interstellar', which
i didn't even pay to see !, there's no way
i'd see 'the martian', free or not.
pete_dushenski: maybe if you were completely unfamiliar with the scifi genre, such as it is (asimov, heinlein, clarke, etc.) then it might pass the sniff test. but good god did
i find it offensively bad. just spoonfeeding the viewer like they were fresh out of the womb.
pete_dushenski:
i had the same overhyped vibe from 'interstellar', which was pointedly atrocious.
assbot: Logged on 11-10-2015 21:42:49; phf: went to a movie theater to see The Martian.
i only ever watch movies when in-wot recommend something enough, so
i didn't realize how bad a movie can be, and this was one of the worst movies
i've ever seen. snl "you can do anything" skit done with a straightface.. in space! but anyway, they've replaced all the regular rows, with reclining sits, and you can push the button for the sit to recline.
i was
phf: oh that makes sense,
i've never thought of his movies that way, but he'd obviously be familiar with the form, being konigsberg
phf:
i rewatched it recently, and it's one of those movies that's awesome when you're 12, and then you see just how bad it is, when you're past your 20s
pete_dushenski:
i guess batman was 1989 but god help me if
i can remember that movie
pete_dushenski: and
i'll take your word for it on nicholson. strangely,
i've only seen him in 'batman', 'anger management', and 'the departed', which were all when he was older. past his prime clearly.
phf: pete_dushenski:
i don't know how successful kesey was at capturing the mind of a schizophrenic, but he certainly was good at relaying an inner state of an acid head. the movie is something else entirely, but still great, since it's basically jack nicholson playing his only role at his best.
☟︎ pete_dushenski:
i should say, 'one of the commies', there are two main commie parties in canada : 'new democratic party' and 'liberal party'
mircea_popescu: where's the "and then
i harassed some nurses" chapter in the man's own rendering of his saga ?
mircea_popescu:
i dunnop that there existed anything more offensive than the jewish ghetto of eastern europe cca 1920.
mircea_popescu: so yeah, if only we could experiment with height
i could fuck throats standing.