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mircea_popescu: hey, at least they admit the nsl was there before 2001.
mircea_popescu: and all this because they wanted her to dedicate her entire fucking day to taking it up the ass for the great god of colonoscopy.
mircea_popescu: "we broke her ribs and other things, but hey, she responds to commands now"
mircea_popescu: e was discharged home on hospital day 3 with a sodium level of 133 mmol/L and baseline mental status."
mircea_popescu: "Then, the patient gradually became more alert with an increased ability to follow commands over the next evening and was at baseline 38 hours after presenting to the hospital. The patient did have significant associated morbidities including 3 thoracic spine compression fractures, a comminuted humeral head fracture likely secondary to seizures and requiring arthroplasty, and multiple rib fractures secondary to CPR. Sh
mircea_popescu: kinda weird they missed the great 2008 opportunity for that, was expecting more lively action on that.
mircea_popescu: it's the people burning shit down that are the true law abiding folk.
mircea_popescu: just fucking burn it down already. there's absolutely no reason to continue the charade. "law abiding" = terrorist.
mircea_popescu: according to new research by Gavin & Mike, in 2020 that number will reduce to 4 digits, and then continue to halve every few years!
mircea_popescu: Starting in 2016, the IRS will no longer accept checks for $100 million or more because the equipment at the Federal Reserve Bank that processes checks can’t handle checks for more than 8 digits. Checks larger than that have to be processed manually by hand, which, according to internal memos obtained by the Associated Press, could increase “the risk of theft, fraud and errors.”
mircea_popescu: ascii_field well yeah. being that the state had to get involved into it.
mircea_popescu: funny how every two bit scammer/fraudster/rent seeker is quick to misrepresent himself as "innovative" "competitor" "entrepreneur" and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: "And that simply raises the question, how far will this Internet content standard go? What kinds of business practices that innovative new competitors might want to introduce might be frowned upon by the FCC?” << superlulzy, because the behaviour discussed is deeply un-innovative. in fact, it's strictly monopoly milking.
mircea_popescu: <deedbot-> [BitBet Bets Bets] 11.28000000 BTC on 'No' - The ETH scam won't see 2016 << whoa that's some decent bang for a buck. ty internets.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i don't need to lay an egg to tell you this one's rotten.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> naggum ~had~ something like #b-a - comp.lang.lisp. very similar mix of brain. << not unlike saying you have si in your fridge. there's bottles there, very similar "mix of atoms".
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> unpredictable, largely unpreventable, and very high failure rate. << there is no such thing.
mircea_popescu: in the "all leaks are catastrophic leaks" school of cryptoplumbing
mircea_popescu: (the chick in that ad, btw, Anya Major, is probably best known to the audience as the russki chick in elton john's stupid nikita thing)
mircea_popescu: that's all they ever did right. not a tiny thing, either, but has exactly 0 to do with tech.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i maintain that apple's exactly ONLY know how was "how to get roi on advertising".
mircea_popescu: incidentally, heh, the days ridley scott was directing jobs' signle shot ad campaigns.
mircea_popescu: (for the record the book isn't very good, but hey. pulp fiction._
mircea_popescu: if there's a good argument against suicide, naggum-b-a might be it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (inflation being, of course, just the monetary equivalent of "stealing the having been stolen from". people do a pretty decent job of managing to forget their parents lived better than they will.)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this connection between one interest and another interest is most embarassing to the usg, in the way it keeps exposing the hush hush inflation problem.
mircea_popescu: and then one needn't explain why interest rates are 20-50% pa for some schmucks, and yet "0.0%" for thje fed.
mircea_popescu: im kinda surprised it's not here yet. but perhaps the roll up of the "college debt" nonsense will come to that : people get auto-ressetting debt on a 7 yo period.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: which, considering it goes with the rest of the "people are too stupid to own real guns, real computers, etc" trend
mircea_popescu: anyway, very fucking unclear what it'd be useful or usable for, past emergency field surgery.
mircea_popescu: lol that entire convo was entertaining. "they snuck in the clean room and made out!!1"
mircea_popescu: a mini-cleanroom is to be made in your yard out of shipping containers.
mircea_popescu: Energy expended = force * distance = lucru mecanic. not just work - "mechanical work", aka, that fiction.
mircea_popescu: yes, you will download Derpy Adventures 17 whether you intend to watch it or not!
mircea_popescu: (china wasn't invented yet, but yes, cheap fast nevermind school of engineering)
mircea_popescu: so, perhaps cheaper than "make your own si fab" : make one that works, eat their pie.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yet somehow the proposition is that "usg" has a sort of control over an activity which generally fails.
mircea_popescu: however, back in the day when 9 oiut of 10 bridges DIDNT stay up, there didn't even exist bridgebuilding as a distinct and named activity.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: meanwhile, in engineering people obviously went from building bridges that sometimes stood up to building bridges that almost always stay up.
mircea_popescu: it's true that organic complex systems take a number of tries to arrive at a result. but that sort of failure rate is not seen in nature - woman doesn't abort 10 for every one it carries to term. aborts less than half.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i used to follow the "press" links in here. now i mostly ignore them. shit's unreadable.
mircea_popescu: or w/e it is. trinque where does the recipe or whatever it is live ? link ?
mircea_popescu: (in practice he'll warn you this makes it a bearer instrument. which is not technically correct, but conveys the point.)
mircea_popescu: because odds are you'll go back to the clerk to fix it for you and he'll be... WELL WHY THE FUCK DID YOU NOT USE THE SAFEGUARD
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla lol you can leave it blank, i occasionalyl did, but you really shouldn't.
mircea_popescu: but it is concerning asto the sanity of the would be "travellers"
mircea_popescu: obviously the fact that the road is observably long and the first steps haven't been made is somewhat concerning