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BingoBoingo: "Decriminalising drug use and possession for personal consumption is permitted by the international drug control conventions and is
a key element of the HIV response among people who use drugs"
assbot: Logged on 19-10-2015 23:41:21; BingoBoingo: Maybe put Nitrous Oxide in the fizzy drinks, sure makes most people
a bit giggly, but worth it for the 1-0.3% of the population that becomes rage monsters on it. Much lulz potential there.
mircea_popescu: they look kinda like "that mainstream ugly bitch and that mainstream insecure hipster make
a porno" cast.
mod6: s/The Pursuit of Happiness/The Pursuit of
a Bag Over Your Head/
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> basically if you drink more than
a coupla liters in six hours (saturated) you're done. << Seems like
a safe way to thin out some hamplanets, while preserving people who aren't quite HCFS addicts
mircea_popescu: basically if you drink more than
a coupla liters in six hours (saturated) you're done.
BingoBoingo: But how much can you dissolve in the water... prolly more than
a small dose.
mircea_popescu: "wake me up when obama finally puts his tiny winer in
a blender"
BingoBoingo: Maybe put Nitrous Oxide in the fizzy drinks, sure makes most people
a bit giggly, but worth it for the 1-0.3% of the population that becomes rage monsters on it. Much lulz potential there.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
a construction worker, porn actor, or wealthy industrialist."
mircea_popescu: "Adolescence is supposed to be an identity Schrodinger's Cat: multiple simultaneous states which eventually collapse into only one. The goal of adulthood is to let go of the other possible existences and to make the best of the one.
A successful adult is one who understands that it doesn't matter which life you ultimately pick, only that you live it well. The same potential for, say, happiness exists whether you are
BingoBoingo: Unless he is hiding
a second middle name in there and the full expansion is "Carl Mark 4Real Force IV" and his name alone may be black enough
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> "these pants are just like those pants except using pants
a makes me feel like
a cooler person than pants b" << Drugs perfected this first: "Heroin feels really good, but Cocaine just always makes me feel more fun"
ben_vulpes: eg "i'm
a coke person, not
a pepsi person"
ben_vulpes: "these pants are just like those pants except using pants
a makes me feel like
a cooler person than pants b"
ascii_field: i thought hazing were more of
a 'тяжело в учении - легко в бою' kind of thing
mircea_popescu: so politician has to resign because he "cheated" on his wife ? as if fucking is now
a crime ? but the thing is... SHE WAS THERE ?
ascii_field: finally
a good use for autonomous copterbots..
kakobrekla: all you need to do is register
a drone and collect the data
ascii_field: (would be interesting to see an aerial 'photo' of
a major usistan conurbation in xray/gamma spectrum at any event!)
shinohai: Some article about
a tool that is supposed to tell you how long your startup has before the vc money runs out
mircea_popescu: that's approximately the number of times they caught anyone who wasn;t
a derp.
punkman: the nypd people operating the vans must be having
a blast with their personal "xray glasses"
ascii_field: punkman: 2nd link shows
a standard (transmissive) xray.
gabrielradio: i had doubts for
a second there. i'm still trying to figure out where to go straightforward & where to reconstruct to better cater to the meaning
mircea_popescu: repetitio est mater crezutio. also needs
a note, because if you turn "crezut" into believe it's unobvious wtf crezutio's supposed to be anymnore.
ascii_field: incidentally, any self-respecting bomb craftsman puts in
a fluorescent trigger for the xray schmucks
mircea_popescu: ftr, romanian hell not being too well connected to the needs of catholicism still mostly fills the space with smoala, which is
a heavy tar.
mircea_popescu: he chinese of the 70s trying to pretend the usians are bad BECAUSE of computers. as if "computerization" is
a bad thing in and of itself, not merely
a natural evolution in which thosew guys happened to have got the drop on our guys.
mircea_popescu: and for that matter, the very amusing situation where people (including derps with aspirations of culture and intelligence
a la orwell) fell for the very obvious trick of pretending that the nazi/fascist police state stuff was not merely the germans/italians being TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED, ie, doing exactly what britain, the us, russia will do themselves later on, but somehow it were specific about them. sort-of like t
mircea_popescu: sometimes i wonder what
a world with ACTUAL 30% gross margins would look like.
mircea_popescu: shitty service ; old confused woman reads off
a tiny script on
a lined paper thing, apparently the EXACT SAME planter is 283.
mircea_popescu: apparently im expected to give
a shit because we're in california-palermo or something ?!
mircea_popescu: go to
a different shop,
a little further. advertisement on wall, "if you want this shop to survive, don't ask for
a discount".
mircea_popescu: "yeah baby, his daddy bought him an iphone ; i ordered this thing to hold 800 bucks. pick
a cock to suck."
ascii_field: reminds me of
a product i suggested to
a fella in meatspace - an iphone-shaped container that conveniently holds 800 usd
mircea_popescu: it's not, "money, i could do anything with". it's "money, i'll buy
a toke with"
mircea_popescu: "i won't starve, i got
a college education / 401k / my gold coins collection"
mircea_popescu: "i'm going to build
a successful company - venture capital got my back"
mircea_popescu: at this point needing
a warning that the cloud is maintained by and for the nsa is like needing
a warning that if you marry an american you'll be stuck with an ineffectual narcissist, or that if you save in dollars you'll end up worse than the manic collector with alzhimers and his piles of old newspapers, or all sorts of similarly obvious stuff.
ascii_field: 'Surprisingly, Dropcam’s privacy policy doesn’t warn customers that the government could seize the cloud-based video from their cameras or tap into their live-streams, and doesn’t state under which circumstances the company would comply with such
a request. (Update: And law enforcement has come calling with warrants.)' << ahahaha
ascii_field: to the point of uninstrumented women's toilets being
a rarity in some places
mircea_popescu: gotta
a) keep driving down the capital cost of pron ; b) acclimate the womenz to their nude future.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how long before
a guy starts sending all the companies scam "copyright infringement" notices and invitations to pay $600 to make the embarassment go away, like those twerps trawling the noob torrent folk.
ascii_field: modern color laser printers do include some form of tracking information that associates documents with the printer's serial number. (If any manufacturer wishes to go on record with
a statement to the contrary, we'll be happy to publish that here.)'
ascii_field: '(Added 2015) Some of the documents that we previously received through FOIA suggested that all major manufacturers of color laser printers entered
a secret agreement with governments to ensure that the output of those printers is forensically traceable. Although we still don't know if this is correct, or how subsequent generations of forensic tracking technologies might work, it is probably safest to assume that all
mircea_popescu: depends what you mean by "policeman". the legitimate job (beat cop, giving directions and taking drunks home) is gone. the paper pusher job is whatever, another social worker. the DEA agent / carl force IV thing is just
a different jolly roger color scheme for the same thuggery.
Xplosionist: I mean, I'm very glad we have people that do it. Most of whom are actually nice and do
a good job. But, wow, I would never want to deal with as much crap as you have to put up with fore that job.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: for every 5mn gestapo anon reports there was
a shocking 0 coups on hitler's lyf.
ascii_field: may be
a legend, from zeitgeist of the time, so to speak
ascii_field: he ran
a kind of 'retreat', exclusive, posh, for high-level police types
ascii_field recalls
a famous case in su where one fella did exactly that
mircea_popescu: if you have debts, why the fuck are you getting
a payckech.
mircea_popescu: pick anabolic or catabolic. if you want
a paycheck, why do you have debts ?
Xplosionist: If you get
a paycheque, that counts as something I guss.
BingoBoingo: Like Bitcoin, but without
a blockchain to keep everyone honest.
BingoBoingo: Still beats the hell out of Western Union. Liquor store had all sorts of cash services, run by
a few cool Persian fellows.
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: there are shithole shops everywhere that will cut
a cheque to arbitrary address for 110% in benjies
Xplosionist: was meaning to ping diametric about stuff today anyway. been
a long time since we've chatted.
kakobrekla: <Xplosionist> Oh, wait, you can't actually _send_
a transaction without being in-sync, can you? < not sure if those are actually being broadcast before it syncs
Xplosionist: thanks much all. And, for better and worse, I'll make sure my client is in sync before trying to propose
a bet in the future.
shinohai: I don't have
a "latest" copy of it. 0.11.0 crashed on me several times, not that I needed it anyway.
shinohai: Don't even need core client to sign
a tx and push it.
Xplosionist: Oh, wait, you can't actually _send_
a transaction without being in-sync, can you?
Xplosionist: I don't honestly know. Hours, to be sure, but less than
a day.
mircea_popescu: but in general : pay
a reasonable fee, this "slow tx" thing is bad business.
mircea_popescu: when you propose
a bet, you can put some money on it to get it started
Xplosionist: K. Thanks. I saw
a "conflicted" report in my client, but wasn't 100% sure that meant what I hoped it did.
Xplosionist: I proposed
a bet last week, but I think my funding of the bet was delayed too long, and the bet proposal was eventually rejected.
Xplosionist: I have
a question about
a bitbet funding issue.