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gabriel_laddel: 's the same problem. Lack of contact with reality. Without
a war or some such you'll have
a class of people who revert to judging others by their suits/hoodies/lack of personality
mircea_popescu:
a lot has changed actually. in 1980s the battle was on to get ibm to stop fixating on "ibm men wear suits" to the detriment of all else.
gabriel_laddel: ssage that neither slogans like "knowledge-based decision aids", nor
a combination of adhoccery and brute force will do the job. (It is regrettable that large groups only come to their senses after their day-dreams have turned into nightmares but, this being so, we should occasionally welcome the nightmares.)
gabriel_laddel: And also for the American Universities the tide may be turning. Traditionally they have been asked to train the work-force for the American industry, while the question of educating the industry so as to be worthy of their graduates was left untouched. But, currently, companies in Silicon Valley seem to be folding up at
a higher rate than they are erected. I consider that good news because it could drive home the me
mircea_popescu: just like pansy ass middle class priss imagines if she were
a street hooker she'd dazzle everyone with her charms.
mircea_popescu: where the fuck do these idiots go to school ? clearly it must be
a special venue.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-02-2015#1031922 << this is fucking insane. "federal employees are not overpaid because federal govt is
a business except it's not
a business, and other businesses that are businesses skew the business average data!!!! federal employees are not overpaid by comparison to federal employees, in fact thjere's
a perfect 1:1 correspondence"
☝︎ mircea_popescu: "In any business, including the Federal Government" << check it out ?! it's
a business now ?
mircea_popescu: honestly, it looked more like
a private concern of the guy's.
mircea_popescu:
a decade or w/e ago i last visited the us, they wanted to know if i have any real clothes.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski "it wasn't
a diary kibbutz, it was
a bombs and explosives kibbutz. DIE GREAT SATAN!!!"
pete_dushenski: even qantas did this recently: 'are you carrying more than $10k in monies' and 'are you
a tewowist' thing
pete_dushenski: in that sense, it's really only vegas that strikes me as
a cool place on the continent
mircea_popescu: somehow "cuntslime on every rock" makes
a place want you to stay. which is exactly why las vegas exists.
mircea_popescu: you just opened yourself for
a pile of rocks thrown eh.
mircea_popescu: generally, it's the "bare cunts dancing" district that makes or breaks
a city's cool.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` how did you get the idea twodogs is cool as in, someone'd want to move there as
a thing to do, rather than "whatever, they are giving out money here"
nubbins`: the school system is
a pretty big barrier to entry
mircea_popescu: if you want to fix it, what you do is, you pick
a pimp, give him legal immunity for
a decade, let him build cabaret street.
nubbins`: and the usual is to get
a degree (cheapest in the country!) and then fuck off
nubbins`: anyway outmigration is
a big thing here
mircea_popescu: anyway. this is kind-of how it worked in all teh warsaw pact. except back then people actually had nothing better to do with their time, (LIKE IN
A PRISON, ALF!) so they studied.
nubbins`: why, indeed, would i want
a bunch of fresh grads kicking around
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, things that exist because thery're beautiful may get
a pass.
nubbins`: because if there wasn't
a catch, it'd just be
a boondoggle
nubbins`: available, perhaps, if there are enough of you to pull
a couple classes together
nubbins`: i feel like an educated populace isn't
a terrible idea, as long as it's educated in things that aren't fucking out to lunch
mircea_popescu: same reason women don't have to pay to go to
a club, especially if they go naked.
pete_dushenski: i seem to recall there being
a trilema on spam filtering
mircea_popescu: (what the bots do these days is crib facebook for textual content, hack it together and use it as spam filler to fool bayesian filters. which are STILL
a stupid fucking idea)
pete_dushenski: "Erik is
a famous individual of the Bitcoin community online forum (screen title- evoorhees), as well as presently benefits Coinapult, derived in Panama." << lulziest spam comment i ever did see
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Maybe like thestringpuller's it is missing
a field?
nubbins`: the other day i watched
a docu about
a florida election worker who was lynched
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> he has all the sexual projection of
a highschool retard. << "non-threatening" 1950's USia was retarded in this way
mircea_popescu: he has all the sexual projection of
a highschool retard.
nubbins`: elvis smoking
a cigarette while working under
a car
mircea_popescu: new pick=up line. "i'm
a pedant. wanna wear my pendant ?"
nubbins`: which isn't the point, but
a fact nonetheless
mircea_popescu: sort-of like the difference between being
a star in hollywood cca 1955 vs being "
a star"/waitress in
a la diner today.
mircea_popescu: but people readily ignore this fact. normal traffic ? x ; being linked by all the internet ?
a*x. being ddosed ? b*x.
mircea_popescu: so ridoinculous btw. there was
a time, 10-15 years ago, when something like this would have taken
a site down.
assbot: Wi-fi "spy" Barbie records children's conversations - and could be
a target for hackers, say experts - Mirror Online ... (
http://bit.ly/1A3zFPJ )
nubbins`: ^ it's actually cheaper for me to buy it from
a henry's store, locally, than online
thestringpuller: getting
a bitcoin client to deploy
a payload kept on the blockchain would be
a frightening event...
assbot: Officials say 19 manatees trapped in
a Florida drainage system have been rescued, and others escaped on their own.
http://t.co/EQAkrPOFql BingoBoingo: Where in the code is prolly going to depends on the version, but sync.cpp might be
a place to start
PeterL: when downloading the blockchain, does the program ask for each block individually, or does it just ask for
a starting block and the other node feeds it everything from that point forward?
PeterL: hi y'all, how's #B-
A today?
Adlai: "sorting algorithm" sounds
a bit like "intelligence test"
cazalla: i'm taking
a sabbatical from drinking in any case
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Actually that... Not
a thing
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Who seriously welds
a toilet down pipe
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> to steal from ed felton, 'you can't build
a safe that is to be kept in the robber's living room' - except that some folks must anyway, so they craft safes that will set fire to the money at slightest provocation << Shoot for Tepco can not cut without fine
mircea_popescu: nuclear warheads also failed to reach widespread adoption, such
a failweapon.
mircea_popescu: lol @ that log. "widespread adoption", such
a red herring.
BingoBoingo: Might be possible in USia asciilifeform but geographical arbitrage is
a thing
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> (where i live,
a traditional 19 inch by 40 'u' rack starts at
a few $k / mo.) << I'm contemplating $200/month for offering welded shut case
mircea_popescu: well, none of these things matter to the layman until they observe another monkey fashion
a club out of it and blooding some faces
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: also does dmca really have the provision for 'complainant must sue before date x'? (ianal!) << yes. this is what dmca is substantially : dc gets
a claim. if customer responds with counterclaim, they forward it to claimant, who has 10 days to show proof they sued.
mircea_popescu: funny how pulling on
a thread firmly unravels whole stacks of shit.
mircea_popescu: they claimed that it's not properly drawn up. meanwhile i discovered that the dc in question (worth ~1.7mn) is actually owned by the same holding company that owns ccbill, which is
a "high risk" cc payment processor, which has
a business relationship with fetlife.
mircea_popescu: So bad have things become in the United States that one of their top right-wing commentators named Glenn Beck warned his listeners this week that the Obama regime was turning America into
a Nazi-like Third Reich and leading the US into
a “society of gas chambers”.
mircea_popescu: mats: the subconscious domination of
a white woman that is << wait, you her or her you ? dat ambiguity