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punkman: http://thebookseller.com/news/e-book-prices-may-rise-vat-law-kicks
badon: mircea_popescu: It's difficult to predict which coins will be valuable, but I'm literally writing the book on the subject.
mircea_popescu: His views are also reflected in a book published next week, in which he writes: "There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so."
assbot: Logged on 04-06-2014 17:34:30; asciilifeform: 'some learn from book; others, from example; the rest must piss on the electric fence personally'
ben_vulpes: Coinsetter's order book."
nubbins`: so apparently the paper that we're using for the book covers is being discontinued
mircea_popescu: as in, you know, rather than book a loss, pretend like it never happened. because if you don't agree it happened, it didn't really happen.
adlai: this = CSP? it's a little dense book, been needing an excuse to read it for a while...
mircea_popescu: "Barbie apparently fails as a computer engineer as Mattel removes 'Barbie: I can be a Computer Engineer' book from all sales outlets."
nubbins`: i believe i'm going to lay down some speedball acrylic white on these book covers
saifedean: alright guys, it was fun but i have to go to lift and eat and do things with my life... do check out the Antony Sutton book I mentioned, you will not be disappointed!
saifedean: full book available here: http://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/Sutton_Wall_Street_and_the_bolshevik_revolution-5.pdf
asciilifeform: it was a good book.
asciilifeform: thing is, enemy who has bureaucracy coming out of his ears - is an open book.
ben_vulpes: book it as an expense in 2014 for taxes.
Vexual: oh, the book
Vexual: what book?
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: why do you suppose i asked for the book
mats_cd03: i was tickled by the chick flipping through a picture book
thestringpuller: "The idea that taxes drive the value of money.known as chartalism.goes back at least as far as German economist Georg Friedrich Knapp.s 1905 book .The State Theory of Money."
assbot: DGC Founder Discusses His New Book, The Digital Currency Challenge | DGC ... ( http://bit.ly/1uObSFS )
punkman: http://www.dgcmagazine.com/dgc-founder-discusses-his-new-book-the-digital-currency-challenge/
devthedev: No, filtering on this school issued Mac Book.
nubbins`: asciilifeform re: that book you posted earlier
nubbins`: i was at a printer's fair yesterday and some guy came up being really weird about a book we published
thestringpuller: one day I will make a book of your turdisms asciilifeform
decimation: this book goes into some detail on the history of the supposed 'efficiency experts' like deming http://books.google.com/books?id=t1IOQWG3hckC
cazalla: punkman, yeah countless times plus fkn wednesday night book study, sunday talks and worse, assemblies
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/i-wrote-a-book/ << click 1st link.
asciilifeform: this is the book, which was a 'best of' (in his view) of his last site, 'fourth checkraise.'
asciilifeform: ^ ilkka's book. mutilated but readable.
asciilifeform has the book, it is lovely
asciilifeform: ilkka's book << notice he pulled the 'kindle' version also.
asciilifeform: i have the dead tree book, it's a 'best of' his blog
asciilifeform: that book is all that's left of him.
decimation: lol he has a book http://www.amazon.com/The-Wingnut-Musings-Ilkka-Kokkarinen/dp/1468166816
assbot: Book Discussion True Believer | Video | C-SPAN.org
decimation: This lead me to this guy http://www.c-span.org/video/?200264-1/book-discussion-true-believer
mircea_popescu: Adlai ah, the book. no, never have.
asciilifeform: the book? can't say that i have
Adlai: (the book, not the review itself)
gribble: GENSYMs - Common Lisp HyperSpec (TM): <http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/f_gensym.htm>; Macros: Defining Your Own - gigamonkeys: <http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/macros-defining-your-own.html>; hygiene-versus-gensym - Community-Scheme-Wiki: <http://community.schemewiki.org/?hygiene-versus-gensym>
asciilifeform: i wanted a book on 'j' 5 or so years ago, had to go to a library with spy camera.
BingoBoingo: If I were to imagine a serious book piracy operation, the standard glue "Perfect" binding would be prefered
mircea_popescu: (true story, gave one to woman, she's like "oh this is so nice, i've never read a book before!"
asciilifeform: not long ago, i opened yet another envelope in expectation of finding 'a book that was actually a book once' and got an ms-word formatted turd
BingoBoingo remembers publishing a poetry book at a ninety something percent loss. -ISBN-(sample copies)+(~7 dollars in ebook revenue from Austrialia) = Loss, I was enlightened, also a week later on lithium
mircea_popescu: o nm, it's not a book, it's a poster.
asciilifeform: and printed on telephone book paper.
undata: I'm skeptical anyone who ever read a book called "48 Laws of Power" ever had any
JuliaTourianski: i do know the book but i have yet to tread it
berndj: JuliaTourianski, do you know the book _48 laws of power_? your "sour grapes" comment reminded me, there's rule 36: Disdain things you cannot have: ignoring them is the best revenge
nubbins`: asciilifeform as i do not wish to hold your book funds indefinitely, plz to provide return address
ben_vulpes: well on 'amazon "book" services'
asciilifeform: book was clearly thumbed
nubbins`: my old man wrote a book once
assbot: Goodreads v. LibraryThing- Part One - BOOK RIOT
mircea_popescu: rather than "we have every book ever made"
asciilifeform: in the classic book, you had a fella going up to the junkyard keeper, offering him a bag of benjies 'for almost nothing'
mircea_popescu: 12-08-2014 05:29:50 <punkman> I am subjecting myself to Swanson's book << anything came of this ?
assbot: Logged on 26-02-2014 06:23:40; asciilifeform: channelling herr naggum: 'It is like going to a library full of books that took 50 man-years to produce each, inventing a way to cut down the costs to a few man-months per book by copying and randomly improving on other books, and then wondering why nobody thinks your library full of these cheaper books is an inspiration to future authors.'
decimation: http://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2014-11/001538.html << herr Walker reviews a book which describes the pitiful state of usg's land-based icbms
nubbins`: speaking of, here's the cover of the book we're working on now
saifedean: you lay down the law and the bikers disappear, mp... just book your ticket
BingoBoingo: ^ actual book
asciilifeform: 1) book 2) comprehend 3) re-create sanely 4) nice things
mircea_popescu: <decimation> what about bitcoind on an asic? << yeah, but only after you actually got a book can you print a chip
jurov: i assume assbot forgot everything about x.idiff.dec cuz it's book is empty for months
Vexual: theres a book on opsec kids
BingoBoingo: Goes back to if there is an unauthorized Penguin edition of a nubbins' #B-A book. Penguin gets real sued.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: regarding: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2014#833679 << What's so bad about a little trappin? As the first commandment of the Book of Jeezy says, "Don't get caught" ☝︎
asciilifeform: 'A few years back, one dreadful boy ran up to me and said, “Mr. Bradbury?” “Yes?” I said. “That book of yours, The Martian Chronicles?” he said. “Yes,” I said. “On page 92 where you have the moons of Mars rising in the east?” “Yeah,” I said. “Nah,” he said. So I hit him. I’ll be damned if I’ll be bullied by bright children.'
asciilifeform: there was a soviet-era kids' book about a lil'bugger who gets turned into an ant as punishment for his idiocy
nubbins`: something tells me this book ain't getting done by nov 15 ;D
ben_vulpes: memory leaks for your book?
asciilifeform: other than that, it's a perfectly living book.
asciilifeform: i could go on, but this could fill a book.
decimation: yeah reading that book improved my C coding because it explained wtf was going on and why
decimation: I recommend this book too http://archive.arstechnica.com/etc/books/deep-c.html
asciilifeform: (only exception i know of re: 'not coughing up' was j. k. rowling, author of the children's book 'harry potter.' i wonder if they billed her for the pension retroactively...)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you got a pointer to where you and nubbins` cut the book deal ?
mircea_popescu: assbot: Jeffrey Robinson, Author & Journalist << oh he's the clueless idiot with yet another "bitcoin book" that's neither a book nor about bitcoin.
ben_vulpes: http://www.jeffreyrobinson.com/book-bitcon.html : "He spoke with big players and small players" << i don't recall him ever stopping by
mircea_popescu: is this a comic book ?
assbot: Atlas Shrugged: The Hidden Context of the Book and Film
asciilifeform: adlai: a riotously entertaining book, as thickasthieves might attest
asciilifeform: adlai: based on book
gribble: The Infamous Brad - Atlas Shrugged 2: Shrug Harder - bradhicks: <http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/393124.html>; Going Galt - RationalWiki: <http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Going_Galt>; Atlas Shrugged: The Hidden Context of the Book and Film - David Brin: <http://www.davidbrin.com/aynrand.html>
asciilifeform somehow knew mircea_popescu would bring out -that- book
assbot: Book of Love page 1
mike_c: hehe, yeah. a book that mines.
mircea_popescu: a mechanical book wouldbe pretty cool actually
kakobrekla: mike_c a _MECHANICAL_ book.
mike_c: stan just wanted a book :)
mircea_popescu: i'm writing you down in my little black book OF INSULTS
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Problem is book has wants too
asciilifeform just wanted a fucking book
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you're not serious if you don't put #ifdef book : turn page on the cover.
asciilifeform wants no #ifdefs in book
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: The "drill" in the book is fun.