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a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 15:28
mircea_popescu: there's no utility involved. suburban ustard wears item because of ~how it makes her feel~ to ~be seen~ as ~being one of the~ rather than any use.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-30 14:04
mircea_popescu: i'm not saying "rust is bad mmkay". i couldn't care less, there's been tons of "new languages" fulfilling the need of people to "revolutionize". they all work, exactly in the way custom pliers work.
mircea_popescu: anyway, fucking tard. "my name is
mircea_popescu ; i've been using chairs pretty much every day since the late 70s, and recently i started getting involved in this fantastic chair community"
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 06:33
mircea_popescu: "we represent the whole world*!!!" * as understood by whatever 3rd echelon bureaucrat in the us dept of our democracy that "handles" "canada".
a111: Logged on 2016-01-12 19:24
mircea_popescu: as someone once said, "their tricks work for them only a short distance of their run, and for us the whole run."
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 23:10 asciilifeform: lessee if
mircea_popescu recalls, when he wakesup
a111: Logged on 2014-03-04 22:05
mircea_popescu: which means, concrete foundation, brick walls
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 22:15 asciilifeform: but there was that old
mircea_popescu thread. where, approx, 'a dollar usg collects from mr.pleb in tax isn't so that usg can spend a dollar, it can spend $trillion, or ten, without collecting anything; it collects the dollar because otherwise mr.pleb will use it to bid up turkeys'
trinque: would fit nicely into
mircea_popescu's future dystopia
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 16:42
mircea_popescu: possibly we're talking of two things.
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: i dunno, you implied the stink came from the synthetics alone!
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: i don't follow the connection between the 'stinky' synthetic fabrics and the bacteria
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 00:47 asciilifeform:
mircea_popescu: presently it eats blocks and tx in a heapless and demonstrably nonoverflowable way, into a general-purpose fixed space (no tx can >1MB) representation that is operable in O(1)
Framedragger:
mircea_popescu: i thought he was being a bit satirical and snarky in that particular passage you quote (those two paras), from when i read it first. not that his general pose of presenting an excuse (if diligently detailed) of this kind of a good sign, of course. just that the tone is not *that* bad. (but, okay, perhaps bad enough when the piece is considered in whole.)
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> this is gonna be more fun than i had thought. << Ecuador?
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 06:55
mircea_popescu: there's a certain artisan's "i will touch all the items" vein in there.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 05:51
mircea_popescu: some of the new microfibers aren't bad.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-17 05:12
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the washing thing is a serious problem. turns out that if no women around, people stop seeing the point.
a111: Logged on 2015-07-02 21:36 phf:
mircea_popescu: i'll keep that i mind. i'd like to give it a try, but i still have memories of tedium and despair from last time i tried building a crystal space project on mac
trinque:
mircea_popescu: long as they keep the californians they imported, I'm fine with it.
mthreat:
mircea_popescu: austin's good, but i'm somewhere else at the moment. hint: i recently flew over butch cassidy's ranch house.
shinohai:
mircea_popescu: ever visited Valparaiso ?
mthreat:
mircea_popescu: en viaje - donde?
jhvh1:
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mod6:
mircea_popescu: ah, thanks for the tip!
mod6:
mircea_popescu: hah, sounds kinda familiar.
mod6: <+
mircea_popescu> i'm like... finally! people! doing commerce irl!~ << aha, nice.
mod6: hai
mircea_popescu, wb!
mircea_popescu: perhaps in time that becomes a social game. "where-in-the-world-is-
mircea_popescu ?" now from tabletop, inc.
shinohai: and Buenas dias Sr.
mircea_popescu , wb o/
diana_coman: ha, wb
mircea_popescu ; I left it on its own after I saw it was going ok, haven't quite timed it
a111: Logged on 2017-03-27 19:28 ben_vulpes: can also attempt a
mircea_popescu, and go after the cps officer in question personally for making shit up
ben_vulpes: can also attempt a
mircea_popescu, and go after the cps officer in question personally for making shit up
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