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decimation: jurov: is that why the tsar sold alaska for
a pittance?
jurov: apparently tsar nicholas arranged
a business with lincoln
decimation: he paid
a couple $k per night apparently
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decimation: heh. well, the world of official usg is quite different from the world of finance for which usg provides
a krysha
mircea_popescu: it's
a bureaucracy, not
a fucking world. they don't have most things.
mircea_popescu: you think there exists
a meta-usg that enjoys life like there exists
a meta-nsa that enjoys thinking ?
mircea_popescu: when someone as high up as
a four star general dares do as much as get
a meaningless title for an old ugly she-horse, he gets beheaded for it.
mircea_popescu: i have declaration at the ready : "In
a statement accompanying the court filing, Mr. Dershowitz said the encounters could not have occurred for several reasons, including the one time he had visited Mr. Epstein’s house in New Mexico. The house was still under construction, and Mr. Dershowitz said he had stayed for about an hour. He was accompanied, he said, by his wife and daughter and another couple."
mircea_popescu: apparently there were no hookers "anywhere in sight" and the blow was from
a sandblaster.
mircea_popescu: decimation unless they come out with "poor young girls are for the fucking', it does NOT have
a strategy.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron nah, caffeine works as
a general stimulant
decimation: asciilifeform: maybe they read #b-
a for research 'ideas'
assbot: Logged on 18-06-2014 00:36:44; asciilifeform: interestingly, sometimes the pharma folks fail: they spent some years trying to cough up
a dopamine reuptake inhibitor that doesn't reduce to
a synthetic cocaine, and, afaik, gave up
mircea_popescu: such an increase can ONLY be viral. not even
a bacteria can do that.
mircea_popescu: check it out, bipolar is
a virus inf% more effective than ebola, nobody noticed.
decimation: I get your point, but what if you are already on
a closed-source microarchitecture?
mats:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9089549 << luls. 'idk nething about security but i wanna create
a security startup' and "I think that is an awesome idea. I am currently
a Business student with
a computer science minor so I consider myself very technical." (real quote)
mircea_popescu: generally, being articulate is the opposite of thinking there's such
a thing as synonymy
mircea_popescu: and for that matter, articulate does not mean
a vague "able to express ideas clearly and effectively in speech or writing"
a la webster. what it means is, "all words used according to their definition, so that the receptor does not have to make ANY adjustments to the text to turn it into 'probable' meaning".
mircea_popescu: "Articulate" has
a certain meaning, look in the dictionary; it is fairly consistent throughout all settings except one: when it is used by
a white guy to describe
a black guy. In that case, the word suddenly means something completely different than it ordinarily does: it means "not hung up about race." Here's the point: the black guy may actually be articulate, or not be articulate-- who knows? But white people kno
mircea_popescu: it would seem that
a correctly run news outlet turns more into rotten.com's library than the gawker empire of shit.
jurov: nothing sturdy enough for hangings available.. truly
a demise of civilization
ben_vulpes: when i explained to her why software as
a career might be worse than working in
a woodshop with limb loss risks etc, given the decades of shit and bad decisions i have to deal with on
a daily basis
ben_vulpes: ran into
a smart cookie of
a babe last night
mircea_popescu: And as it is something unusual, the usual verbs cannot be applied to it. Can the ants from the outer space be "forgiven"? No. They can be only wiped out. It is an existential issue, not
a technical one. That's why your brilliant arguments won't work"
ben_vulpes:
a) whenever i hear "neither better nor worse" i actually parse "i cannot evaluate things and exist in
a perpetual fog of 'oh iono'"
mircea_popescu pictures legion of corporals going "omfg end of fucking world igmme
a drink"
mircea_popescu: much more brusquely, as if
a cowboy in dirty footwraps at
a bar somewhere decided to cut it short and end with
a joke.
mircea_popescu: the payload is, amusdingly enough,
a very primitive answer to the same problem.
mircea_popescu: basically, THIS if anything is the red thread of
a putative "american nation". religious obscurantism divorced from religion per se.
mircea_popescu: then people jump at the fundamentally antiscientific restructuring of science the americans did (and many places copied) after 1950 as
a sort of noivel phenomena
mircea_popescu: this makes him no more
a philosopher than the soviets.
mircea_popescu: i never read anything important he wrote. he did
a lot of abolitionist propaganda, for which his party attached titles to him.
mircea_popescu: kinda lends
a lot of substance to
a notion that usians are actually broken in the head structurally, rather than accidentally. at least the usians of the time.
mircea_popescu: he sounds exactly like
a better read joseph smith. substantially the same inclination to pass counterfactuality for fact "because who's to say it didn't happen" and "it damned well serves the purpose of making my understanding of the world more palatable ot others".
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: meatspace friends blessed me with three rare books as birthday gift "Slave to her nigger", "Temptress in the Slave Quarters", and "
A Craving for Black Flesh" these people know me too well << wtf, these are books or more like photo albums ?
mircea_popescu: "come watch
a bunch of folks sit at desks on
a green field, make numbers go up."
mircea_popescu: and if in
a scored sport, say baseball or soccer, they started messing with the scoreboard, the game'd stop right then and all the players etc would just move to working teh board.
mircea_popescu: chetty: [...] which makes stupid ideas like min wage even more ridiculous << there's simply no way to avoid it. it IS
a stupid idea, of course, but in an inflation driven economy everyone just keeps trying to climb on everyone else.
mircea_popescu: "i represent the family of
a rich ferguson, mo merchant who has died in the recent troubles..."
mircea_popescu: it looks like
a pretty good attempt at being the onion
nubbins`: they really do put
a fair amount of effort into what they do
nubbins`: "The Multiplatform Edition contains files for each year of the magazine in
a format that can be transferred for viewing and searching on multiple devices. The content can only be viewed and searched year by year. • The Classic Edition provides
a browser-based interface for accessing the archive on your desktop computer or laptop. You can do advanced searches and view content from the entire 44-year archive, all at once!"
nubbins`: website + backlogs are literally
a trove tho
nubbins`: mircea_popescu:nubbins`: what's
a young anti-consumerist to do ;/ << shit look at that, "mother earth news" is actually
a thing. <<< print issues are
a bit lacking these days, but for the $20/yr or w/e...
nubbins`: mircea_popescu:nubbins`: you know i took
a ninety per cent pay cut two years ago? << you actually made money at some point ?! <<< i actually make money *now*, just... less 8)
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: 6 year old al macbook is slow, but
a bit weighed down with junk, still mechanically solid << loving cheapest thinkpad of 2011 still. working on hoarding fans for it and learning enough hardware diddling to do cell replacement in battery apparatus
assbot: Logged on 22-02-2015 05:32:09; asciilifeform: 'My wife got through her Master's on
a G3 iBook, and we paid to have its motherboard replaced twice for the same graphics issue,
a little over
a year apart. Having to pay for the first repair sucked, but sometimes those are the odds. Having to pay to repair it
a second time due to identical symptoms
a couple of months after the initial repair warranty was up was
a kick in the teeth, and was
a good ind
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: there's really no logical reason to buy it unless you got
a better way to run it << ALso can't seriously discount the glory of major sharholders split across 3 continents. GAW could prebtebd to sue coinfire, Qntra???
BingoBoingo: mike_c:
a lot can change in
a year. but i don't think there are enough shares in existence to make it worth it anyway. i mean, what, bingo maybe has 50k shares? << Beauty of MPEx is neither you nor the pederasts can truly be sure.
BingoBoingo: "I HAVE OUTLINED
A NUMBER OF DIFFERENCES AMONG THE SLAVES; AND I TAKE THESE DIFFERENCES AND MAKE THEM BIGGER. I USE FEAR, DISTRUST AND ENVY FOR CONTROL PURPOSES." How the British controlled hundreds of millions in india with hundreds of their own
BingoBoingo: decimation: fluffypony: what about rhodesia? << meatspace friends blessed me with three rare books as birthday gift "Slave to her nigger", "Temptress in the Slave Quarters", and "
A Craving for Black Flesh" these people know me too well
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, decimation: the point that i was trying - and failing - to make, was that
a fundamentally fiat-based business arrangement like renting
a house from
a fella on opposite end of continent who you've never met and never expect to meet, cannot be 'bitcoinized' in the sense of turning you loose from usg financial jail << Even when "fiat poor" developing "escape WoT" is obstacle
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