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mircea_popescu: why would i want to read a "press" that publishes by permission ?
cazalla: if this guy gets out of it alive, he has a future in viral marketing on social media
cazalla: looks somewhat halfassed, arrested for sending angry letters previously, guess that is to far a jump to heads on pikes
mircea_popescu: halfassed terrorist holds a bunch of fatasses hostage ?
cazalla: he won't talk to em, not a chance, heads are gonna roll either way by looks of it
mircea_popescu: australian prime minister basically is admitting de facto that a) he stands for a lie and b) he's too stupid to be able to argue for it persuasively.
mircea_popescu: or is he going to *pretend* like he gives a shit about anything but his fantasy ?
adlai: where you can have an order placed/cancelled message processed by the API server, but a subsequent order book query shows that the order matcher hasn't yet seen the order
BingoBoingo: Looks like an ad placement by a retard
ben_vulpes: is anyone aware of interesting hiccups around using bitcoin to send rpc commands to a bitcoin daemon running on a different host?
ben_vulpes: how does a fence mark the land as belonging to any particular man?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: not so much the custom of rings being a mystery, but how it marks the territory as being yours in particular, to the naked eye
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: this is really such a mystery to you?
ben_vulpes: "a collar by any other name..."
ben_vulpes: a reference to territory marking.
ben_vulpes: i got away with a "filigree" piece - 90% air anyways
asciilifeform: this is a tell-tale bezzle bell
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes was speaking of the well-known fact that a new car in usa loses around a fifth of its market value when driven off the merchant lot
asciilifeform: think car loan is a scam? try food loan.
ben_vulpes: <thestringpuller> I had a coworker who bought a car, and is still underwater on the loan. It's like "really"? << when are car loans not ever underwater?
fluffypony: almost like a "log" of sorts
ben_vulpes: leastaways i've yet to see that work out for anyone. more often than not hiring leadership is a cover for the sharks to move in and kick founding teams out.
BingoBoingo: A.SS it is
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> ben_vulpes: A.S. 300 Anno Satoshi << can it be 300 ass ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Have some sort of windows install for crapware. Maybe not for archeological purposes, but everyone with a Windows box seems to use it for the purpose of running crapware. They just aren't usually aware of it.
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: A.S. 300 Anno Satoshi
ben_vulpes: <BingoBoingo> It would be interesting if a large portion of humanity couldn't make it to the year 300 because even the corn became diabetic. << counting from what now?
BingoBoingo: Probably a local club won a game again.
asciilifeform: (from a larger loltron, http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/2013_02.php )
badon: So, the government started doing other things to encourage farmers to farm without making them fear losing their livelihood if they have a bad crop or experience a depression.
badon: "bought the farm" became a euphemism for death after farmland seizures by the government and banks during the USA's Great Depression. The seizures led to food price increases and starvation. When the government tried to undo the damage they caused by reselling the farms, no one wanted to buy them.
BingoBoingo: It's a tower of rentseeking
BingoBoingo: It's like how kakobrekla responsibly got a car while goat got an infinite money sink
decimation: I wonder how many under-35s in the us actually have a positive net worth?
thestringpuller: I had a coworker who bought a car, and is still underwater on the loan. It's like "really"?
mircea_popescu: dumbestthing a kid with college debt could possibly do today is put a downpayment on anything based on his salary / some loan.
BingoBoingo: I thought google had a cafeteria
thestringpuller: I suppose in meatspace VC's can forcefully remove the leadership of a company in exchange for more money.
BingoBoingo: Subway found a demo with money, and... they got shit done. They just had to manage their partners the same way they manage the cattle coming in for the product.
BingoBoingo: On the otherhand Subway does great business recruiting Doctors who want a tax writeoff to finance their new locations
mircea_popescu: decimation re making money, there was this lulzy failure of one of romania's cardboard tycoons. he tried to open a franchised 7/11 thing.
decimation: thestringpuller: can't he find someone with some credit to get a bezzle loan?
mircea_popescu: like a linked-in profile.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller the thing with what people "Want to" do is that it's generally just a credible excuse
thestringpuller: I have a friend who is trying to open a skateboard shop literally 500 feet from the biggest skatepark in the state
thestringpuller: even if the franchise is in theory a "gold mine"
decimation: BingoBoingo: yeah, the 'de-professionalizing' of the us 'middle class' is a long-run trend
decimation: what does it mean when the price of every asset in a marketplace changes simultaneously in the same direction? http://finviz.com/map.ashx
mircea_popescu: anyway, that's 8.5% a year for two decades
mircea_popescu: the inflation is immense. back in the 80s, a 2k monthy salary made one comfortable
BingoBoingo: It would be interesting if a large portion of humanity couldn't make it to the year 300 because even the corn became diabetic.
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: It's largely here for a good portion of the population. The people who won't water the flowers or the garden without "Miracle Grow" and such.
thestringpuller: As mircea_popescu points out in his article on YCombinator (Facebook lining up a billion idiots of investors), I wonder if the the world Mike Judge envisioned in Idiocracy is possible.
mircea_popescu: except their crew and screenwriters suck so bad, the old school as depicted by them is a scary abomination
mircea_popescu: before that, amateur/gonzo porn killed any respectone would have gotten as a porn star.
thestringpuller: it's perverted the profession as a whole.
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: social media marketing has pretty much killed any respect one would get as a copywriter
thestringpuller: "A great deal of attention has been paid . . . to the technical languages in which men of science do their specialized thinking . But the colloquial usages of everyday speech, the literary and philosophical dialects in which men do their thinking about the problems of morals, politics, religion and psychology . these have been strangely neglected. We talk about "mere matters of words" in a tone which implies that we regard word
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: that reminds me of huxely. Take all meaning out of a word as described in his book _Words and Their Meanings_
thestringpuller: Featured Wannabe Startups that were gestated in 500's accelarator is just a bit too long
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Something has to be important or a school to have Alumni. 1950's Nasa has Alumni, random college has alumni, random wankfest does not.
mircea_popescu: sounds like a killer value prop.
mircea_popescu: "meet a collection of idiots from the intrernet who will think they're on a first name basis with you in spite of not actually having a bank account, and will be late to meetings at places where they can't afford to eat".
mircea_popescu: which in turn is a deviantart clone, 10 years late.
mircea_popescu: not even. it's basically a derpy website
thestringpuller: "A surefire way to look well-connected and important is to reference reputable investors or founders by first name." that seems slightly disrespectful
cazalla: 7. Hold meetings at a non-mainstream coffee shop. <<< good advice
mircea_popescu: nothing quite like a humiliated pm live by someone holding a gun.
BingoBoingo: Well, the city has a history of that.
BingoBoingo: We have enough frational germans here to assemble a whole german
BingoBoingo: I imagine there are a lot of words
cazalla: lol they've closed the airspace over Sydney over a couple dudes in a cafe
mircea_popescu: so if it's wish season : i would like a giant man-eating dragonfly to ride on.
mircea_popescu: b-a, not a channel to be treated lightly.
kakobrekla: normally when you place a gig or so, people will go to store, buy the cd, rip it to your specification, fill the request and get the bounty
kakobrekla: upon reading pms on the tracker, seems someone filled a request for me a month ago.
kakobrekla: for example, at one time i had over 1k torrents seeding on a 5mbit upload line, unused.
mats: i ran a script to grab 0sec releases to keep my ratio up
mats: tis a special place
kakobrekla: >This [invite] tree has 1,062 entries, 254 branches, and a depth of 7. It has 769 Users (72%), 221 Members (21%), 62 Power Users (6%), 9 Elites (1%) and 1 Elite TM (0%). 595 users are disabled (56%), and 102 users have donated (10%).
thestringpuller: cazalla: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2p9ctz/ford_motor_company_bitcoin_a_trend_for_2015/cmuj9va "I came here for the bunny"
mats: hmm, i just noticed i have a what.cd invite
snowfall: Decided to come in for a bit
cazalla: prob make for a shitty viewing down here though being in the burbs
Vexual: anywaym im gonna go up a hill and look for stars with a bottle of whisky
Vexual: better than a dose of antibiotics
Vexual: they're effectively massless after a fashion
Vexual: apparently if the green spin hits the floor it can bounce a mile up
Vexual: its a rock spinning so fast it makes lighting
Vexual: BingoBoingo: you saw a green meteor?
asciilifeform: 'mach' already worked. exactly same idea, just as much of a snore, 20 years ago.
Vexual: none of us will never know what a bloacks worth in bitcoin
decimation: cazalla: I just looked outside here, it's a clear sky but I didn't see any meteors yet
BingoBoingo: What a fucking time for a netsplit.
BingoBoingo: Oh, what a time for freenode to netsplit.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: dwolla is a name that seemed to jump the shark for web 2.0 names <<< just about when "cutesy" died.
BingoBoingo: Just noise on the surface of the water. Snowden was a wave.
mircea_popescu: no such thing exists. tor is and was a usg hole long before pando sort-of read it in trilema. etc.
Vexual: put a keyboard anywhere near the thing you'll need a drink
BingoBoingo: Not that cheese isn't great or that sour milk products don't matter. That a cow matters in a revolution.