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mircea_popescu: nobody's sitting there with an amp meter and a soldering iron.
mircea_popescu: this is what they do you realise, order replacement parts ?
mircea_popescu: and in fact no mitigation thingee out there does anything else.
mircea_popescu: mats / ascii_field the dispute you're engaged in looks to me like a failure to agree upon terminology. alf thinks in terms of "competent user". mitigation as generally discussed thinks in term of "usg-spawned monkey which was allowed at a keyboard for no conceivable reason". in this later case, hotgluing the usb hole is a valid mitigation technique.
mircea_popescu: moonpunter ask an individual that participated. seven days a week consisted of bad leadership and getting pounded.
mircea_popescu: but hey, the closed box folks managed to wrest an entire business space away from the user with the shitty screws./
mircea_popescu: no repair shop does anything other than what you normally do with desktops
mircea_popescu: moonpunter mike is too young to know exactly what is the fate of being in the us army. how you get bombed silly from all directions while trying to follow nonsensical directives.
mircea_popescu: and THIS point MUST be actually verified in practice. and not only once, either.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile bitcoin is still not for the poor, they can dance until they fall over for all the good it's gonna do.
mircea_popescu: because "everywhere is here!!11" and so yeah, totally, astro turfing, "the controversy", "moving the window" and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: the funny thing is that the usg is so very fucking convinced all the bs stuff it's powered by works in bitcoin too
mircea_popescu: ok, that inadiquet thing rules. "i need feminism because i am stupid and white. if i were black i'd need rakim on a horse."
mircea_popescu: and jesus god trilema comments are something else. at the same time there's a woman telling me how incredibly right i was, and some derp telling me how incredibly wrong ~i'm going to be~. pointless and witless on parade, neverending, eternal.
mircea_popescu: r a ride with some guy who doesn't know that's what you call it when you "push pedals in the car and stuff". what could possibly go wrong, other than everything (and you'll get blamed for it).
mircea_popescu: "This will quickly change if you are one of us." << heh, check it out, dude wants slaves an' doesn't even know it. because a) slavery is not a thing in the us, right, the idea just came to him out of nowhere, not out of watching the sv muppets and making the next teeeny tinsy incremental stop and b) it's a really fucking great idea to go slave for a dude that doesn't even know that's what it is. 2nd best after going fo
mircea_popescu: who the fuck thought bitcoin.com was not a cheap scam at any point.
mircea_popescu: assbot: New bitcoin.com design makes it look like cheap scam <<< because.... it .... is .
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform myeah i suspect not what he was expecting
mircea_popescu: eh, get out of here. you should have been here earlier, back when someone being in btc was 50-50 they're pedos too.
mircea_popescu: fu8cking ridiculous, no actual names in favour to be found.
mircea_popescu: obviously he'd be in there. suggest whom i might have overlooked.
mircea_popescu: so i'm comissioning a commemorative drawing of the defeat of the xt,
mircea_popescu: they dumped it, after which they fixed two typos in five weeks.
mircea_popescu: the soviets did outright steal from the various coops, entreprises scl towards the end
mircea_popescu: you probably read the fucking eskimo book of the dead, on occasion.
mircea_popescu: ;;google "Oh, and next time you trash and break a Segway in Vienna that Alex paid for because some fat girl offers you a hug...DONT RUN AWAY AND LEAVE THE SEGWAY IN THE STREET!!!!!! (true story for whoever wants to know. Roger, Erik and myself were there)"
mircea_popescu: there's this ancient segway story from the early days of bitcoin
mircea_popescu: <mats> did the animu touch you in a bad place << bwahaha
mircea_popescu: not a bad idea actually, some election bets. when is it, nov ?
mircea_popescu: speaking of, "Modi faces crucial test in India as onion prices soar. High onion prices are creating a challenge for Indian Prime Minister Narendra."
mircea_popescu: well i can't fucking find a piocture, and i don't recall where the fuck this was. some sort of innovative tank helmet
mircea_popescu: imagine an asymptotic curve rotated around its asymptote with the ends cut off.
mircea_popescu: "just as good as the real one, but focuses the waves away from your head
mircea_popescu: <mats> and half the joes were in germany getting fitted for prosthetics << germany is like the king of this trade by now.
mircea_popescu: im sure if you have a lot of time and a well defined cube to look into it's useful.