132100+ entries in 0.907s
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: bitcoin needs ustard "investors" like isis needs
a shipment of dildos.
BingoBoingo: TravisPatron: But you have to admit, you are kind of
a stranger to the actual Bitcoin industry
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
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.
assbot: 5 simple rules for blogging, linking to sources, commenting, and generally making sense on the Internet. | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1hVDNjr )
mircea_popescu: so here's
a bizarre matter of fact : if one were to buy
a dozen candles and emplace them on
a windowsil, so that they're at different heights (say two inches differential tallest to shortest) and let them burn for
a half hour or whatever it takes to finger
a girl to exhaustion,
lobbes: he's
a strong silent type
assbot: Successfully added
a rating of 1 for TravisPatron with note: Newcomer, easy come easy go on the tits
assbot: Searching pgp.mit.edu for key with fingerprint: E465FB9F065F4BF966AF465407CC5D7C4A0208B8. This may take
a few moments.
BingoBoingo: "shall have in his possession
a hypodermic syringe, hypodermic needle, or any instrument adapted for the use of controlled substances or cannabis by subcutaneous injection." << Illolnois law, because apparently people shoot up cannabis?
Duffer1: is B-
A Helpdesk still
a thing?
mircea_popescu: alternatively, you can take
a plaster cast of your penis, embed cameras, fill it with silicone caulk, let it dry and have her fuck it.
BingoBoingo: Having
a lol in the qntra piece's comment section at the expense of the lamentation in the BitBet comment section
mircea_popescu: "The New York Department of Financial Services "BitLicense" scheme was
a flaming disaster that drove out no less than 15 bitcoin-related businesses from the state and cost leader of the charge, Ben Lawsky, his political career."
assbot: Logged on 11-06-2014 03:07:22; asciilifeform: david lives in
a little house, generously stocked with parts, and fixes the remaining machines for
a modest fee.
ascii_field: Congratulations on downloading the finest software development environment ever created. If you want to find out more about Genera or would like to have
a Symbolics Lisp Machine, check out the Symbolics website at www.symbolics.com or contact sales@symbolics.com.
BingoBoingo: I'll drop
a message and see if he replies.
mircea_popescu: the only thing you may expect groups of muricans to do is
a) whine and b) ask for govt money.
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...
ascii_field: amazon has not, for most of its existence, turned
a profit in the customary sense of the word.
ascii_field: 'Bezos runs
a company, not
a playground for millenials. He runs it to make
a profit...' << the last bit is technically
a mistake...
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: there are
a few of my attempts in the logz.
ascii_field: gabrielradio, mircea_popescu: lulzy piece. ought to be accompanied with
a drawing of 'man of the future' -
a two-metre cock with small legs (like caterpillar's)
pete_dushenski: aps in lawyers’ earnings and subsequent promotion. Whereas individual and firm characteristics explain up to 50 percent of the earnings gap, the inclusion of performance measures explains
a substantial share of the remainder. Performance measures also explain
a sizeable share of the gender gap in promotion."
pete_dushenski: "Male lawyers bill ten percent more hours and bring in more than twice the new client revenue than do female lawyers. We demonstrate that the differential impact across genders in the presence of young children and differences in aspirations to become
a law firm partner account for
a large share of the difference in performance. We also show that accounting for performance has important consequences for gender g
pete_dushenski: and speaking of jlaw and the gender pay gap, i'll leave you with
a research abstract
pete_dushenski: you'd think
a comment about dick pills would've ended up in the 'how to suck
a cock' but nope, ended up in 'jennifer lawrence needs to grow up' piece :)
pete_dushenski: "BMO’s annual debt report pegged average household debt in the province at $124,838 in 2014 (compared to
a Canadian average of $76,140.) Among Albertans, half held credit card debt, 53 per cent had mortgages, and 17 per cent held student loans."
assbot: The problem. It’s not “in the industry.” It’s inside of you. | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1ZYdk73 )
shinohai: Thanx kakobrekla, probably not worth the time since he still hasn't named
a price that he will pay for testing.
mircea_popescu: dja happen to have
a link to my comment here about that article ben_vulpes ?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: not that the guy lies, but that the guy exists because the system needs
a guy like that to exist.
mircea_popescu: the thing being... if it's any good it won't be going anywhere, and if it goes away just means you saved
a penny.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes prolly best wait
a bit for that, as bitcoin isp mainstreamizes will be easier.
ascii_field: (appears to be switched off in
a default build, but re-enabled if use of 'idea' cipher is enabled.)
ascii_field: phun phakt of the day: gnupg 1.4.10 permits dynamically loaded turds, in
a manner similar to openssl.
mircea_popescu: i think the colo price is
a little overboard, myself, but hey, maybe they're worth it.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i wouldn't trust whatever
a reason.com reporter misunderstood on
a topic he imagined.
mircea_popescu: heck, actually you could run the whole affair as
a "clothes free zone".
ascii_field: wasn't there
a thing where chicago police dept. had one.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: how is this any different than
a ghetto brothel?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller if i wanted to be
a usian slumlord, i'd buy
a decrepit building, hold auditions for (nude) black women under 25, on the premise that they get to stay there free, but they don't get to say no to any cock.
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: not
a bad gig, really. actually does more for 'the people' than gov't ever did.
ascii_field: wai wat, pete_dushenski is
a languages aficionado ?
mircea_popescu: you know, in my experience beauty is
A LOT more isolating. i spent my fucking youth doing psychotherapy on six foot, one gallon titted blond 17 to 22 yo beauties who wanted to be PEOPLE
ascii_field recalls scene from 'silicon valley' where
a rich fella (fictionalized steve jobs) compares his troubles to that of jews in germany
mircea_popescu: these fucktards already gave humanism
a bad name, they'll manage to shit simple "human" too ?
mircea_popescu: seriously, that's what he got ? woulda sorted
a lot of fergusson problems, this logic.
punkman: "Neighbors reported seeing
a bleeding woman screaming for help as she tried to scale an 8-foot-high wall that surrounds the property at the end of
a cul-de-sac"
assbot: Logged on 05-07-2015 21:37:26; mircea_popescu: war means, i fear i have to remind, spending the next 5 years without
a woman eating your belt and shitting in
a hole you dug yourself.
mircea_popescu: if they really need
a lot of their agents hung we'll hung them alright.
mircea_popescu: and if real estate holders think pooling THEIR moneyt is such
a great idea, guess what ? they will.
mircea_popescu: THEN we might turn the other way for
a little time over
a little tax leftovers to make the transition smoother.
mircea_popescu: read up on the original merchant's guilds for
a broad idea.
pete_dushenski: "Chinese cross-border investment in greenfield projects and in expansion of existing projects in Africa fell by 84 per cent in the first half of this year compared with
a year earlier, from $3.54bn to $568m." << the waterfall is drying up.
assbot: Logged on 21-10-2015 15:06:41; asciilifeform: sounds appealing. what does
a 4GB SDRAM stick cost there ?
assbot: Logged on 21-10-2015 15:02:33; mircea_popescu: and to think marlboro spent
a billion on those stupid billboards and gave that schmuck cancer.
pete_dushenski: canadian provinces wanted to subsidise their industry via 'stumpage fee' but usistan said that this was 'unfair' and imposed
a compensatory duty on canadian softwood lumber. much fur flew but canada eventually agreed to 'anti-dumping' price schemes.
pete_dushenski: this was the essential dispute over canadian softwood lumber vis-
a-vis regulatory jurisdiction under nafta
mircea_popescu: and to think marlboro spent
a billion on those stupid billboards and gave that schmuck cancer.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: hm, eikther i recall this wrong or the world has forgotten
a decade later
mircea_popescu: fact is they survive, and if asked to discern what is and isnt
a goatfuckingstan i'd take their word above yours
mircea_popescu: (you realise "goat country" is
a proxy for disability right ? we don't call them cruthces, we call them mechanical mobility aids! )