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mircea_popescu: "With so many words of wisdom at-hand to express my creative play on words, deciding which in-formation of thoughts, feelings, and actions to choose from to impose my identity with is not easy. Acting with effortless presence in
a transcendental meditative state in our beautiful blue biosphere of biological beings is becoming the best, greatest, highest version of our SELF."
mircea_popescu: As virtually limitless amounts of cosmic epiphanies began to dawn on me, timeless transcendence of my timelessly presence in the ‘Holy Shift of B.S.’ (belief systems) about universal life started
a Higher Truth transformation twist in my life from I to We (think illness to wellness)."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform never heard of them, and it looks exactly like
a scam.
mircea_popescu: "My message has always been the same. Hard Work, Dedication, and have been the core wisdom I hope to transfer into you as
a thank you for reading, visiting, and absorbing my thoughts, feelings, and outlook on life."
mircea_popescu: “I have many irons in the fire when it comes to projects,” Shanks writes on his website, “from health, to wealth, to blogging and establishing
a community movement, my arms are ready and my eyes wide open to welcome as many of you as I can, to serve
a higher purpose, help others create success, happiness and prosperity in life.”
mircea_popescu: find
a way to make creative lines have
a good punch line.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: "If you wish to make
a name for yourself, find
a way - preferably,
a systematic way - out of this conundrum." << systematic being... this place ?
mircea_popescu: is registered to
a self-styled new age internet entrepreneur.
mircea_popescu: The company that makes the supplements disavowed ownership of these advertisements, saying that they were produced by “affiliate marketers” who were not its responsibility. In fact, many of the websites investigated by Forbes traced back to
a single individual whose phone voice mail said he worked at
a carpet cleaning business. One of the product’s pages — BrainStormElite.org, but not BrainStormElite.com —
mircea_popescu: bulk is
a PARTICULARLY venomous anti-property of secure items
mircea_popescu: it's exactly like the difference between knowing and not knowing that washing hands prevents peripueral fever. now, for as long as you don't know, you don't know. once you do know, it all reduces to
a question of how well you washed your hands.
mircea_popescu: whereas for the unaware, this question unposed, everything they do is
a waste.
mircea_popescu: that IS
a get out of the circle card. because once you're aware, everything you do is more or less successful, but nevertheless in THIS line.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> if you can be dekulakized - that wealth wasn't really yours. some nice fella just felt like letting you use it for
a spell. << quite. and quite shockingly how it works in bitcoin too.
BingoBoingo: The fiat fail is
a pattern though. People near the top like Blair and Bradley with ItBit or Altman with CoinBase say they are cool with the law and people lower down in Utah and Iowa say STFU they have laws too.
mircea_popescu: decimation : the idea that the poor have some sort of choice or whatever is so damned laughable. to quote myself, "Not only is the consumer about as screwed as is currently the case, but to everyone's benefit he has just been clearly proven yet again that revolt = being fucked in the ass harder, longer, with
a thicker implement with sharper barbs on it. "
BingoBoingo: It took
a lot of time to get the Qntra gloat piece at just the right amount of gloat.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the amusing dilemma of the defeated being, of course, that they're stuck either exposing themselves in
a doomed charge,
decimation: so the rates 'look' fair while being
a stumbling block for the up-and-coming
assbot: Logged on 07-04-2015 00:10:01; mircea_popescu: just like having
a car doesn't alow having gasoline. it's true that often people who have cars also independently have gasoline, but the two are fundamentally unrelated, and there is such
a thing as the fool's breakdown, ie, car's outta gas on the side of hte road.
decimation: saying they ‘want’ such
a policy – and backing the (D) pols who propose it. "
decimation: utilization fee” of 1 percent
a year on deposits in excess of the money they need for their operations. "
BingoBoingo: <trinque> the idea that saving isn't saving unless you're also receiving
a return is itself braindamaged << But you aren't saving, you are lending
trinque: the idea that saving isn't saving unless you're also receiving
a return is itself braindamaged
decimation: Russ's children being unable to gain 'risk-free' returns at the bank actually is
a good thing in my opinion
mircea_popescu: this isn't
a worry. this is empathy. i understand how fucked the bug is, even as i crush it under my boot. it is, after all,
a bug.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: l0l tails is still
a thing << how would tails cease being
a thing.
decimation: is, 'Well, what's the point?' They look at their savings accounts, they are getting pennies. Pennies. And it's
a fool's game."
decimation:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/04/scott_sumner_on.html < "One of the things that disturbs me about the current world--and this is irrational, I suppose--but it bothers me that my children are growing up in
a time when the return to setting money aside for the future is close to zero. So, when you say to them, 'You could save some money and don't have to buy everything with the money you have,' their response, which is correct,
trinque: postfix is ancient braindamage of
a whole other category
trinque: (admittedly I've put way too much effort into having email handled by
a box under my own control)
trinque: I used
a 2 or 3 recently, held my nose while doing so
ben_vulpes: look danielpbarron there's
a function in common lisp named for you!
☟︎ mod6: there is
a 75pc wire pack looks like i might need too, ~$5
mod6: and some wires... and
a serial port
mod6: now i gotta get
a drive, solder & soldering iron.
mod6: asciilifeform: this instance is
a "m3.medium" which is allocated 3.75 gb RAM. the units in "free" and vmstat [free,buff,cache] are in bytes.
mircea_popescu: (i seriously recommend this - go hang out in court for
a few hours. divorce is best, tax is also pretty good, but even menial traffic tickets is golden often enough)
mircea_popescu: i dunno what us you live in, but the civil docket is
A LOT lulzier than this. if there were
a lulzy sorting algo i'd prolly never see
a judge.
mod6: its on
a deb6 x86_64 environment.
BingoBoingo: "All three cases are bad news. Bitcoin Core does not restart itself automatically. If
a node dies or freezes up it requires the owner to notice restart it manually, each and every time." << Why should bitcoind care to restart itself? That's what python is for.
cazalla: BingoBoingo, i'm hoping to replace everything here with edible plants.. axed down some random tree here (went axe instead of chainsaw) to make room for maybe
a mulberry in the spring.. stump was
a cunt to get out the ground
cazalla: i did pick up another guava from the local bunnings
a few days ago,
a pineapple guave to go with my cherry one
mircea_popescu: well, no guns because not legal in australia, and no chickens because they;re not licensed to run
a brothel.
BingoBoingo: masaging the roots seems it spent
a bit long in the two gallon container and could have done well in
a larger one.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah, they look
a little wilted as is normal for
a transplant but not much. seem they'll be fine
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's some sort of rose called "Double Knockout" which I find funny because abuse of genetics term by
a plant geneticist. Not much to congratulate me on yet. All I did was pick them up from Rural King and put them in
a hole.
trinque: "Neither me nor Gavin believe
a fee market will work as
a substitute for the inflation subsidy."
trinque: ben_vulpes: that dude uses the word "believe"
a lot
BingoBoingo: Wasn't looking to pick up
a rosebush, but was at Rural King
joecool: there's
a plugin that'll scan nightly for broken links you can use on wordpress
ben_vulpes: <Pierre_Rochard> ^ they’re afraid of dead links. Why they don’t simply reroute to the new url is
a mystery to me << that'd require having some kind of
a clue