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BingoBoingo: These concerns are why I need
a new asshole, carve it.
adlai: BingoBoingo: "Level 1 of assbot's Web of Trust", "replaced in
a published piece". not sure why preformatted snippets need special treatment, what's wrong with <pre>?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Seriously, take the endoscope and find
a new orfice in that.
adlai: "...consider
a different one or learn /how/ to make it do this."
BingoBoingo: adlai: The gist was Mark Lyford, who put the banx coin through one dilutional hardfork already, and he's looking to move his coin to
a different altcoin's chain in yet another hardfork.
BingoBoingo: The fault is not with HeySteve for submitting
a piece. It is with me for accepting it in its condition.
BingoBoingo: adlai: The part where there were positive things about
a shitcoin were near the bottom of the problems there.
adlai sadly missed the offending shillery, but wonders how much koolaid HeySteve drank, and whether
a wot that has no negrates can ever be truly complete
BingoBoingo: It was my mistake.
A draft Qntra style guide is incoming soon to prevent this.
BingoBoingo: jurov: Honestly actually reading it instead of turning it from .docx to something Qntra could eat, it was pretty shit. It's length was also incredibly dilutional relative to whatever value
a small portion of the content may have had.
mircea_popescu: this obviously gives way to
a very interesting twist : if you ever were in prison, it is the gov't's option to CLAIM that if you build
a business, you didn't build
a business - because you had come up with it during your stay and well, hid it from them. which should bring
a fine, right ? on top of restitution, correct ?
mod6: shinohai: haha, i've done that at least half-
a-dozen times.
mircea_popescu: "Because the only truth you know is what you get over this tube. Right now, there is
a whole, entire generation that never knew anything that didn't come out of this tube. This tube is the gospel, the ultimate revelation. This tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers. This tube is the most awesome goddamn force in the whole godless world. And woe is us if it ever falls into the hands of the wrong peopl
mircea_popescu: im sure it is. this is actually
a correct result. in other news, you wanna know how adictive "drugs" are ? CHEESE!
mircea_popescu: Michael Dunn, 47, was convicted of killing Jordan Davis, 17, in November 2012 after he shot into
a SUV of four teenagers 10 times when an argument broke out over loud music coming from the teens' vehicle. Dunn was sentenced to an additional 90 years in prison for three attempted murder convictions and another 15 years for firing into an occupied vehicle. “Our justice system works. This case demonstrates that our just
ascii_field: 'may as well hang for
a sheep as for
a lamb' (tm)
mircea_popescu: "BANX represents
a thus far dividend-paying investment in BanxCapital," << dividends out of what ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "And yes, it'll be
a damn shame if this backfires on BitShares. Their technology is extremely scalable, blazingly fast and impressively flexible on the backend."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: were THAT true, it would ironically make
a move away from pervasive, entrenched gender inequality in favour of the males
a deeply populist move.
mircea_popescu: how about the alternative explanation being "society as
a whole thinks young males should die horribly in droves and fuck you already."
mircea_popescu: But perhaps there's
a different explanation: there may be an assumption that if
a guy asks such
a basic/stupid question, then he's an idiot and not worth bothering with; but if
a girl asks it, well,
a college girl isn't held to the same standard/ expected to know as much."
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."
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: there's
a great scene in donnie brasco where newell depicts the death of john wayne as transformative for those schmucks.
mircea_popescu: "You can't imagine how you, one guy, can be the problem-- the government is much bigger than you, isn't it? But there are millions of people exactly like you. One byproduct of modern narcissism's reliance on finite media is that countless other people are modeling their lives on the same template you are. You think you are unique in your thoughts and identity, turns out you are
a clone. You think you're the only g
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: self-esteem education has resulted in
a country that will be sold on the open market by the pound.
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.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck does Richard Wilkinson manage to look at the data showing that us blacks making $1k
a month just for the asking nevertheless sit around poles like monkeys glaring at people ; whereas those same blacks living in brazil, making
a quarter as much or less for 200+ hour work months go out and fix the swing in the park that they build for free in their spare time and decide there's something wrong "with society"
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: it was clear to me that the amount of money he made off seinfeld (~zilch) is actually
a very correct evaluation of his actual contribution to the show.
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: 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: fun fact : the private aviation airport is in
a place caled moron.
mircea_popescu: while im pretty sure the roof will support
a dozen lithe chicks seeing how i can lift them in pairs,
mircea_popescu: no i mean, sunroof as in,
a floor without
a roof on top of the building.
ascii_field: funnily, thing still has
a - nominally - functioning uboot. but mysteriously fails to load anything from any media whatsoever.
ascii_field: weird chip (similar to pogo) for which the only available os was
a systemdized linuxlike
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
ascii_field: phun phakt: systemd HARD FREEZES
a box with no chance of recovery if it runs into just about ANY issue at boot time.
mircea_popescu: you're only
a bagholder inasmuch as the shit you made wasn't worth anything anyway.
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.
assbot: Logged on 22-10-2015 16:22:03; mircea_popescu: "oh, slavery meant immunity from foreclosure ?" "be
a good non-slave jobsman and don't thionk about that!"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it is
a collosal waste of time. the problem with time however is that it can be but wasted - whatever you do with it can not be traded for the time it took. not at
a profit, not at all. so... waste, all of it anyway.
mircea_popescu: "wait, for them and their grandkids ? my family was foreclosed on five times in three generations! " "don't you have it so much better ? FORTY ACRES AND
A MULE!!1"
mircea_popescu: "oh, slavery meant immunity from foreclosure ?" "be
a good non-slave jobsman and don't thionk about that!"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and getting back to slavery (as
a historical consturct this time) and the subtle perversion of culture : in the ten billion discussions of how badly antebellum slaves had it that point out that they were being educated (misrepresented as "beatings" and horror, of course), how many stop to point out that
a) they didn't starve periodically like their northern counterparts and b) if they behaved had lifetime, even GENERAT
ben_vulpes: strikes me as
a colossal waste of time, but then again i'm not
a fantastically wealthy financier.
mircea_popescu: (more precisely : not giving enough of
a shit to cave - mowing down the dumb people doesn't count.)
mircea_popescu: yeah. not giving
a shit about having the same conversation with different dumb people every day.
mircea_popescu: "son, your mother has cancer. here's
a line-up of applicants for the job."
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: he's
a russian, they're genetically already ensured to be unhappy
mircea_popescu: what's wrong with just introducing yourself as "domestic slave" ? oh, i saw that in
a film once. better call it "housewife"
mircea_popescu: because "raceysm" is the shorthand for
a social convention, that's on one hand nonsensical, and on the other precludes people who are slaves from addressing their slavery as such. it must be called something else. because lo and behold,
a person who does work for no pay at the behest of her masters is now "in
a job" hurr durr.
mircea_popescu: "caring for her family was the most rewarding job [she'd] ever had" aka "my domestic slavery is
a much more fulfilling, pleasant and empowering personal situation than your job will ever hope to get". that's what it is.
mircea_popescu: if you think it is, train
a slave to do it at home, try to hire
a brutha to do it at your diner.
mircea_popescu: who
a) should not be driving ; b) want to be driving ; c) can't find
a sane way out of this.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes because it makes zero fucking sense. it is not
a job.
ben_vulpes: shinohai:
a woman recently told me that "caring for her family was the most rewarding job [she'd] ever had"
BingoBoingo: Tesla pretty much killed all its PR goodwill in
a week
BingoBoingo: This season as
a whole I think so far matches their best single episodes in the bast
BingoBoingo: "Pierre Eymard and friends were studying novel antieplieptics, and used dipropylacetic acid (
a solvent) as both an intravenous vehicle for the drug, and as placebo. They observed that the placebo worked, too, preventing seizures at the higher concentrations. If this had been
a phenotype without visible effects, it would have been
a perfectly ordinary conclusion that drug was not better than dipropylacetic acid-- aka Depakote"
mircea_popescu: much like the teenager is only "unruly" if dumbass anette bening of
a mother keeps getting in the way,
BingoBoingo: But still here all cats of
a certain size are still on the walk away and buy
a big dog list.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> there's
a huge gap between the split and agriculture. you're missing the voice, pastoral life,
a lot. <<
A lot, but fuckers didn't write shit down
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mircea_popescu: there's
a huge gap between the split and agriculture. you're missing the voice, pastoral life,
a lot.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> other than that, "studying" monkeys to "understand" people is not unlike bugging the neighbour's appartment to "understand" why your wife cheated on you. << Makes the basis of
a number of pulp murder mysteries.
mircea_popescu: no, we did not. both monkeys and us descdended from the same thing. which was not
a monkey.
BingoBoingo: Gorillas are funny though in an ironic sense. 800 lb primates with inch and
a half cocks and abrely any balls. Basically US police officers. Carl Mark Force IV in the fur.
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.
BingoBoingo: 3. do you know what zyprexa is ? "antidepressant", aka
a sedative that fattens you. << Only
a thing, because the tend is nao labeling "depression" as "bipolar depression" when patients are
a pain so this
a the excuse to stick them on an anti-manic/anti-psychotic like zyprexa. Get them outta the civilized clinic and into the medicaid one
mircea_popescu: 1. what is depression ? uhhhh ; 2. do you know how they measure it ? hamiltonian scale. most of which is sleep loss and weight loss. ; 3. do you know what zyprexa is ? "antidepressant", aka
a sedative that fattens you.
BingoBoingo: An extra inch and
a half of height and he'd probably be as crippled as the former running backs his age. Even if he till he's that beat to retire still likely got more left in his head than fucking Altman.
pete_dushenski: i'll keep that in my back pocket in case
a particularly mundane stretch of parenting should eclipse :)