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ben_vulpes: actually mircea_popescu this is why i don't carry cash. all of my local providers know who i am and extend me credit at my request.
ben_vulpes: decimation: more likely to run a tab with your local providers, as I do.
mircea_popescu: decimation i think he may have a point with the cop robbery
mircea_popescu: fuck that, i'd rather go naked.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: and i've not carried cash routinely since i stopped doing that thing that entailed always carrying cash. so?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you know what ? i have never used a cc at a pos. ever.
decimation: London cabbies are amusing too. I remember one bitching about Pikeys squatting on some farmer's land and appealing to the EU court of human rights
ben_vulpes: i have a healthy relationship with my cab co's and they don't lock the door on me
ben_vulpes: actually i should say
Adlai: mircea_popescu: actually the one cabbie i had an heart2heart with tracked us down ten minutes later to return my friend's iphone whateverthelatestis
mircea_popescu: and i wouldn't poay with a card wtf.
mircea_popescu: Adlai but i like talking to the cabbies.
ben_vulpes: i'm familiar with those too, Adlai
mircea_popescu: whole thing took ten minutes, that guy probably did more for me than half the gradschool educated people i ever employed, on a percentile basis
mircea_popescu: i take a cab out of grand central, tell the kid i want a hotel, kinda close and not too expensive
ben_vulpes: i mean you pay them, they go places, it's a simple exchange
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> how can one love anything about nyc << i love the taxis there too
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ben_vulpes: i'm content with being the dish-breaker and singer of things around these parts.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes anyway, she was just... i dunno, her bubble was neverendingly shockingly short. you could rarely predict what she won't foresee
mircea_popescu: incidentally, this guy married the hottest chick i ever saw. like 19 too, some hick chick.
Adlai: at least i had the good sense not to throw water on the burning oil O_o
Adlai: don't ask me about kitchen safety, i nearly burned my house down yesterday
mircea_popescu: see, when i think great safety rule i think things like "don't place your heaviest pans highest in your kitchen"
Adlai: i've never seen anybody do that level of work on a hot engine, usually it's just things like oil checking
mircea_popescu: i doubt that's such a great rule.
mircea_popescu: Adlai i dunno, ask carlin eh
decimation: I find watching such movies enjoyable, there's a whole collection here: http://www.csb.gov/videos/
Adlai: one thing i did like about the army is that the core text on safety and risk assesment is titled "Learning from Others' Mistakes"
ben_vulpes: i'm trying to remember myself
Adlai: although i guess internet arguments are more fun when people don't even know how vastly their assumptions and definitions are outta wack
mircea_popescu: most english as a single language kids i meet aren't adults at 30.
ben_vulpes: when do i become an adult?
ben_vulpes: "beatings, frequently", is probably the best advice i've ever gotten.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> i think a vanishingly small minority of parents actually adds value through parenting. << the "how to parent well" resources are well drowned in noise
mircea_popescu: decimation in public ? nobody would, either. except for me, i keep talking about all sorts of things that shouldn't be in public, much to everyone's shhock and horror.
decimation: yeah I agree with mircea_popescu, it's a 'big picture' problem
mircea_popescu: i don't think they have YET had any sort of objective.
mircea_popescu: i dunno what it is, the russians have the secret to this.
mircea_popescu: i'd have you court martialed if you counted by three. and i would notice.
Adlai: the only army-wide test which supposedly measures strength that i'm aware of involves pushups and situps, and i can count on one hand the number of times i saw it administered without the vast majority of people cheating
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel in short, im not denying a lot of work has been done. i'm just saying, i'm skeptical.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i dunno, your research papers.
asciilifeform: perhaps i should move there, and enlist
Adlai: where do you think I live?
Adlai: "intelligence" is a very nebulous concept. you can get precise measures for precise definitions of it, but i'm not too interested in who can do long division faster in their head
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's what i mostly use to score individuals << whatchado, flip the lights on & off and watch the pets sort out the room ?
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: "the genetics underpinnign cognitive function is debatable and poorly understood." really now? I looked into this, there is no debate on the matter of race / iq / genetics (there is however, lots of screaming). What genes specifically determine iq is definitely up for debate.
mircea_popescu: it's what i mostly use to score individuals in proxmity, too.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes, i did read that one.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as far as i recall the better studies were done by the russians, measuring eye movements
asciilifeform: i suspect you'll get an even tighter number if you factor out arm length (test for reaction time usually involves light and buttons)
asciilifeform: Adlai: if i recall, hypothesis involves impedance matching - same reason folks with damaged myelin sheaths lose theirs. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i am but a poor evil overlord!
diametric: i'll change my nick for 10 bitcoin.
Adlai: asciilifeform: interesting. the only correlation i can think of for reaction time would be that of overall size, or rather, the length which nerve signals need to travel
mircea_popescu: decimation diametric would one of you consider perhaps changing nick ? you're hitting a total blind spot with me, you're like figs and dates, i keep confusing you!
asciilifeform: Adlai: disturbingly close. 0.8, if i recall.
diametric: decimation: i know.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dun see it. pandemic is act of god.
Adlai: i'm more scared of a friend overestimating his own drunk/high driving abilities and killing me before widespread deployment of self-driving cars, than i am of dying of any pandemic, ever
diametric: she touched her fucking eyes the last i heard.
diametric: asciilifeform: i'm not sure how you've come to the conclusion based on a single nurse that didn't follow the rules getting ebola to the usg has let it walk at leisure.
diametric: decimation: 2013 was the worst in the last 17 years for measles, entirely due to anti-vaxxers. last thing i want, is measles moving around, and having more chances to mutate.
decimation: diametric: I agree with you that 'anti-vaxxers' are a bigger threat than ebola
mircea_popescu: in short, you have nfi what happens once it reaches the magical 2% i think it was ?
diametric: asciilifeform: it kind of surprises me. if anything, i feel as though the media, and in part the usg, is making ebola sound way more serious in order to keep people in a state of panic. and you're falling right for it.
decimation: diametric: I agree with you that ebola in the us likely has r << 1.0, and will not be a pandemic
mircea_popescu: so i go buy chocolate dipped figs. only to discover, the motherfucking figs
mircea_popescu: i expect they make furniture out of the thing too
diametric: I've heard numbers ranging from 0.5 to 2 for r
diametric: its deja vu for me, i had this nearly identical conversation with a friend over sars way back when.
diametric: we're still only sitting at one infection contracted in the US, a nurse that didn't follow the proper protocol when dealing with the index patient (who is now dead). I'm not seeing the incoming pandemic yet.
diametric: man its feeling a bit like fox news in here, trying to convince me I already have ebola
diametric: decimation: of course, but i think thats happening. (re; the idiot that sneezed and said "sorry i came from africa"
diametric: i find it kind of interesting though, you were in the camp of ebola isn't a serious problem for a first world country when we talked about it a few months ago.
asciilifeform: meant to be printed, i think.
thickasthieves: what do i look like?!
thickasthieves: omg i'm going to reddit to try to get mpex to support bitcoin, they only take words now!
decimation: ah I see his note in the log, thanks for the tip. I wonder what kind of processor they are using
thickasthieves: but no, thank you for giving it a go, i always like to see the new b-a bizs
BingoBoingo: decimation: I think kakobrekla is giving them a spin. I've read mixed reviews.
mats_cd03: and i plan to wait until brk-a bet concludes to do that
mats_cd03: the only thing i have in mind is bitbet audit 2
decimation: I read it as 'squitter'
decimation: I think you wrote about the tyranny of infinite liability
decimation: mircea_popescu: I believe usg officially values passengers at $170k per head: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/08/asiana-airlines-crash-lawsuit/2500067/
asciilifeform: i for one am quite curious what the first successful use of a uterus bomb will do to 'security theatre.'
mircea_popescu: i think it' sstill done in germany/poland
asciilifeform: next step was, i think, 'knockout flights' - with anaesthesia
mircea_popescu: tbh, if i were sitting on the iron throne in question, i'd have the agents naked
decimation: "I'm an official friend of usg, here's my pass from Stalin"
devthedev: I'm trying to gain knowledge of which brokerage would be best.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> and by 'invade your person' I mean 'subject to arbitrary measures of physical control << they still doing the "freeze" kindergarten game in airports ?
mircea_popescu: "what do you mean handle" i meant
mircea_popescu: <decimation> I suspect that few of the young apprentices that mircea_popescu mentioned ended up dispising the masters who showed them how dumb they were << actually, if the periodic apprentice riots are anything to go by, they probably resented their masters to their grave.
BingoBoingo: Ah, I only have so many channels open at a time.
decimation: and by 'invade your person' I mean 'subject to arbitrary measures of physical control'
Adlai: beautifully vague, but i guess that's appropriate at such an early stage
asciilifeform: (and schools, but i repeat myself)