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mircea_popescu: cazalla for what it's worth i did confiscate
a "cop"'s gun once.
cazalla: undata, i don't think that at all, i just think it's
a bit much to cry over
a cop killing
a nignog who tried to grab his gun when said nignogs kill each other in greater numbers but no media circus there, no riots either
Sid3waY: I'm looking for
a Lil help on margin trading on bitfinex
undata: cazalla:
a cop would never lie about that after shooting an unarmed guy
cazalla: undata: in the words of reddit, if you try to grab
a cops gun, you're gonna have
a bad time
undata: regarding undersea living, I'd be concerned that
a hostile govt would simply destroy the thing
undata: seems to me spaceflight is going to be required for any innovative approaches to "making
a society" to emerge
undata: asciilifeform: conversely if one thinks with too broad
a brush, all possible conditions look the same
thestringpuller: makes the fiction of stealing
a nuke and making your own country
a lot more rational
undata: it just takes
a hell of
a lot of peasant-grinding
undata: their heads tend to roll after
a certain threshold
undata: asciilifeform: no one can get away with *anything*, not even
a sovereign ruler
chetty: undata, so many cop shootings out there, prolly
a video of most anything available somewhere, which in fact makes the point.
undata: chetty: the video I saw was
a guy yelling at
a cop
undata: your broad generalization glosses over quite
a bit
chetty: well the info 'leaked' so far sure sounds like self defense. But face it, none of us know what happened really. The kid that got shot cause he answered the door with
a game controller in his hand would seem
a lot better example, to me.
chetty: the 60s never went away, just took
a trip
undata: BingoBoingo: I'm going to hazard
a guess
BingoBoingo: According to the radio the grand Jury finally came to
a decision in the Ferguson case. Won't way what it is yet, but
a good chunk of St Louis County went into lockdown.
TomServo: Boy, the pheeva hipster mascot does
a great job capturing my lack of interest in their product.
nubbins`: my friend's folks go down there for
a few months every year, apparently it's common to use the golf cart to go to the store, etc
nubbins`: <+cazalla> zomg, anyone heard of
a mobility golf cart? <<< cazalla iirc these are
a thing in florida retirement communities
cazalla: interesting, new zealanders are like australia's version of mexicans - Fewer New Zealanders are leaving for Australia and more Kiwis are returning home. Statistics that have just been released show New Zealand's annual net migration gain rising to
a record for the third consecutive month, led by an increase in student arrivals from India and fewer Kiwis crossing the Tasman.
mircea_popescu: lol they have
a special revolutionary web2.0 site for slides ?
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> once upon
a time my contacts were made to order. << should have bought 500 pairs.
xanthyos: i just got
a tablet and i want to find
a reliable authing app
cazalla: as
a kid, no-one picked up that i had
a lazy eye, so for many years i didn't even understand why i couldn't see what all these other kids could see with those stereogram books
cazalla: <asciilifeform> i can see the 7-8th 'virtual' bits of colour DAC resolution flicker. <<< see, i don't even know what this really is, so not
a concern for such
a person :)
cazalla: if viewing angle is
a concern, i can see how they are utter shit but if not, suitable for gaming/desktop use, i like my 120hz led
cazalla: where am i gonna get
a widescreen crt though, one suitable for gaming
cazalla: well, at least for gaming but even for desktop use i get
a headache from anything less than 120hz
cazalla: zomg, anyone heard of
a mobility golf cart? gawminers community raised funds to some random.. "Within one month, they had raised over $3000, enabling Doc to purchase
a golf cart urgently needed for mobility, enabling him to live alone but independently in Crystal River, FL. He also received enough mining equipment and hashing power to keep
a steady stream of income flowing for the rest of his life."
ben_vulpes: i believe that you have
a term for this degradation of the industrial toolchain, asciilifeform, but it escapes me at the moment.
ben_vulpes: lead time was nearly
a month back then.
ben_vulpes: it was
a glorious time at the intersection of the autorefractor and the custom plastics.
ben_vulpes: once upon
a time my contacts were made to order.
ben_vulpes:
a hilarious thing about my monitor selections
ben_vulpes: cazalla: i'm casually observing lady v browse etsy et al for moar home furnishings (just set her up with the budget for
a kilim rug), saw rabbit fur flash across the screen, thought of your habits.
cazalla: <ben_vulpes> we are planning to buy the year's rent in
a lump sum <<< i tried this once before but got knocked back, i figured because i paid on time every time the owner figure what was the point
ben_vulpes: it's
a more expensive space, but nobody's teeth will be chattering in the new space.
ben_vulpes: we are planning to buy the year's rent in
a lump sum
mircea_popescu: anecdotally, i totally raped the power company in romania. one year they were desperate for cash, so you could make
a deal where you prepaid consumption at fixed rate. so i did, i prepaid for like
a year.
undata: that's always valuable in
a depression
mircea_popescu: as
a general principle : the only use of money in an inflationary spiral is to buy stuff.
mircea_popescu: so stock up on stuff then. look at your grocery list, see everything on there you actually like and keeps well, buy
a year's supply
ben_vulpes: i struggle with the flipside of the debt thing - what to do with the retained earnings? go long the stock market? really? i'm bullish on btc on like
a 30 year timeframe so that has to have next to no bearing on the 1-2 year timeframe for handling retained earnings right now. give up the 8% or w/e the market's doing under QE or hold it all in cash because "it can't go on like this forever!11!"
mircea_popescu: ie, 3x what
a house apparently costs in ohio (and that 1% was off ~14%
a year, mind)
mircea_popescu: they took out credits in swiss francs because they were 1% cheaper before the swiss franc doubled in value over
a summer, so they could pay 80k for
a shitty prefab apartment in
a shitty bucharest neighbourhood,
mircea_popescu: and "entrepreneurs" aren't in that much better
a shape, since we're on it.
xanthyos: like the molding of
a real doll
mircea_popescu: couch surfing is
a thing. bumming food and shelter off people you met at
a party last week idem.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: "25% salary cuts every 2-3 months" << this is
a thing?
mircea_popescu: "La ultimul termen din 1 aprilie, Mazăre s-
a prezentat la procesul de la Cureta de Apel Bucureşti" << they were trying for the "court of appeals". itcame out, "the appalling curette".
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mircea_popescu: "we want to have
a democratic process for as long as the results come out the way we like. we also want science that confirms our preconceived notions".
mircea_popescu: and they have
a poll about "what" pre-decided words to ban ?
mats_cd03: "TIME apologizes for the execution of this poll; the word ‘feminist’ should not have been included in
a list of words to ban. While we meant to invite debate about some ways the word was used this year, that nuance was lost, and we regret that its inclusion has become
a distraction from the important debate over equality and justice."
mircea_popescu: so romanian presidential elections were 30%-40% first round, then 54% - 45% 2nd round. then they made
a poll to see who people voted with, and 66% claim to have voted wioth the winner. that's 12% more than actually did. what fraction of that is people lying, and what fraction is votes stolen ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, because i remembered doing the research for my latest : speaking of the "how about you stop sending niggers" thing - the romanian secret service arrested
a few dozen men mid december 1989 who were travelling to timisoara by themselves. no women, no children, "vacation". they had all heard that this was the oldest town in europe with electric illumination.
cazalla: lol
a fkn rabbit is front page of /r/bitcoin
BingoBoingo: Looks like it. They did
a piece on GAW miners and then
a few hours later... haxxed
jurov: my every productive day ends with such wtf stuff or
a bugreport
xanthyos: NO LONGER
A KEYbase boy, are you proud of me?
mircea_popescu: "The infection vector varies among targets and no reproducible vector had been found at the time of writing. Symantec believes that some targets may be tricked into visiting spoofed versions of well-known websites and the threat may be installed through
a Web browser or by exploiting an application. On one computer, log files showed that Regin originated from Yahoo! Instant Messenger through an unconfirmed exploit."
mircea_popescu: jurov: quite
a food ofr thought <<< it pains me to say, but it'd seem more food for shit than for thought.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: "Rejection reason: There's no way for
a mod to find
a suitable replacement for
a random chance." << how do you find
a "reasonable substitution" for
a bet that goes "x website will publish
a number ending in 5"
mircea_popescu: nah, this is
a well known defect of badly made login scripts
kakobrekla: actually punch cards arent
a bad idea after all
ben_vulpes: i think the question that i'm asking is: is an embedded db even
a good idea?
jurov: is there
a way to search for it?
ben_vulpes: the thought that writing to disk requires explicit concurrency semantics (DB_CONFIG requiring lock numbers configured by trial-and-error) in c++ with bdb etc (would this be true of sqlite as well?) makes me think that talking to
a professionally written database over
a local socket wouldn't be such
a bad idea.
jurov: asking of anything to fit into head is
a tall order