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mircea_popescu: and whenever a new ditz was hired to do paperwork, and she fucked this up, the bank rep would call me to fix it.
mircea_popescu: (which is chiefly why they give you a slot to put an intended name in)
mircea_popescu: but as it is, the payment won't clear (ie, won't leave sending bank to go to receiving bank) unless the name and number match.
mircea_popescu: in my entire busienss experience something of that description happened exactly once ; it was a customer of MY SAME BANK using the short form slips they have (not the full iban, just the acct #) and sent money to me instead of his intended recipient. the bank asked me if i am releasing it, which i did, and it was done the same day.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski that never fucking happens. it's rank nonsense.
mircea_popescu: contrary to the more or less agreement seems to be (video) i suspect raid may be a worse tarpit.
mircea_popescu: italy found america first, never told anyone, was rich
mircea_popescu: it's how you make yourself poor against god's patent will.
mircea_popescu: finding el dorado and RUNNING OFF with a chunk of gold you found in the street is NOT how you get rich.
mircea_popescu: " I readily understand the vanity involved, nevertheless let me point out to you that it's actually to your detriment to attempt to separate yourself from the source of things you like. "
mircea_popescu: and forgets to mention where he got the idea. and OF COURSE to no very constructive end.
mircea_popescu: heck, are the mls even still visible from this ever-so-useful www
mircea_popescu: but read the fucking old ml, nobody goes "here, try this binary", it's always "add this, recompile, say what happens"
mircea_popescu: at the time it looked like they might go somewhere with it.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski wouldn't go as far as watched, but it was immensely popular and i am culturally aware.
mircea_popescu: a bimbo is the sort of woman that will drop a hot cast iron pot on your foot sending you to hospital for six weeks because you offered her flowers.
mircea_popescu: a) sexually interesting ; b) sexually active ; c) very stupid. to life-threatening levels.
mircea_popescu: except of course if one's the sort of sexually frustrated guy that lives on a boat with a broken down engine
mircea_popescu: (if i actually lived there and was doing a dc business, 100% what i'd call it.)
mircea_popescu: not the sole, but a significant one with very modest expense for the lolz.
mircea_popescu: nah, no us, no china, no russia. let the non-idiots have a chance.
mircea_popescu: which leaves phuctor in dire need of a new home. unless anyone comes forward with something (hey jurov what's the word there ?) i guess ima get another box at another dubious provider
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the point of study isn't "memorize this list of bugs"
mircea_popescu: study is just another kind OF PLAY ; and paper is just another kind of TP.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the notion that "study is just another kind of work" belongs in the same burning pile with "paper is just another kind of money"
mircea_popescu: the fucking idea is to get POSITIVE leverage for crying out loud
mircea_popescu: aha. this, incidentally. it's fucking medieval, you know, for man to work a day and at the end of it to have less than a day's work to show for it.
mircea_popescu: "unless it runs 10k x 5k i won't use it, except i do".
mircea_popescu wouldn't mind using that on a few skulls, so. progress!
mircea_popescu: (unlike adults, infants do not have a means of protection and so the bacterium can inhabit their gut and poison them.)
mircea_popescu: there was a time, actually, botulism killed more people than disentery.
mircea_popescu: but there was a time, people and jackals ate the same three day old carcasses.
mircea_popescu: i dunno that anyone but anthropologists even conceptualize interspecies commensalism.
mircea_popescu: the difference between "at mercy of parasites" and "reasonably healthy" is strictly predicated on "not commensal with beasts of the field"
mircea_popescu: not eating with the animals is a very important health practice
mircea_popescu: it does not need to serve any practical function other than, allowing people so willing to set the bozo bit on the idiot club.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and if it can't drive a 10,000 x 5,000 pixel array at reasonable frame rate << how did you get the numbers asciilifeform ? for instance, shouldn't it be 16:9 ? so then why not 16000 : 9000 ? 8000:4500 ?
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