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pankkake: I like the old "collector" hardware. I have 2 or 3 Plextor Premium
pankkake: now I'm more looking for t60 + ultrabay actually. we'll see if my ebay snipes work
pankkake: I hope I can get one cheaper, but maybe the coreboot thing makes them highly prized items though :(
Apocalyptic: pankkake, feel free to pm me the txid and I will have a look
pankkake: I've only determined they both use the node.js Express framework (my first step is usually to determine wether it's PHP)
xmj: i.e. where do you live?
The20YearIRCloud: Decimation - In our market I can buy houses that return revenues of purchase price within 5 years all day long. I was on the MLS last night looking in an area I want to expand to and found 14
The20YearIRCloud: I'm free!
assbot: I Hunt Pineapples (ihuntpineapples) auf Twitter
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it doesn't stop there tho. i used to watch formula one, but then... guess what ? david price intervened in the middle of the game and took everyone's bats away and forced them to use curtain rods.
chetty: <mircea_popescu> chetty kinda interesting how teh black square is trying to do the same "i;m opting out of your fucktarded language space"// maybe more than blacks actually, how often do you need to look up stuff in urban dictionary?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i guess wrestling actually IS the mother of all us sport. << Not quite because of kayfabe and the heel/face dynamic.
mircea_popescu: chetty kinda interesting how teh black square is trying to do the same "i;m opting out of your fucktarded language space"
mircea_popescu: i guess wrestling actually IS the mother of all us sport.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> back in the 70s when politicians started doing this, engaging in pseudo-debates on "issues" that had no coherent definition in their respective systems, people derrided the entire process as nonsensical. enter the internet, everyone is doing it. everyone. everwhere. find the most obscure blog and you'll have two nobodies doing it to each other for sport. << Interestingly this is why I kind of follow sports. There
mircea_popescu: punkman i can't really distinguish latin languages enough to have an oppinion, other than that modern french is perhaps having a similar if unrelated problem.
chetty: I dun think thats the languages fault, poor abused language
mircea_popescu: some other languages however act as a confounder of thought, i am discovering, and a hindrance to expression.
chetty: I am not sure its actually language relevant
mircea_popescu: i suspect for the average english as sole language speaker action is actually impossible today.
mircea_popescu: i don't think action is possible anymore.
mircea_popescu: i suppose it must be cheaper than actual speech.
mircea_popescu: but the more i read the more i realise that actually... it's not me inventing something novel, it's my brain trying to cope with nonsense.
mircea_popescu: it started as this literary device i had thought i had invented like a decade ago. we even tried to work it into our book with chet.
punkman: I like this concept of parallel discussion
mircea_popescu: so i suspect pop culture and the (very specifically english, btw, and chinese!) tendency towards the lowest common denominator and cultural sterility is the result of this chasm : on one hand people expect to be belonging together, unwarrantedly. on the other hand, they share exactly nothing.
mircea_popescu: by chance, i was just reading the latest on crooked timber. here : http://crookedtimber.org/2014/08/07/shit-and-curses-and-other-updates-on-the-steven-salaita-affair/comment-page-4/#comment-551490
mircea_popescu: it all dovetails neatly into BingoBoingo's recent stuff about sublanguages. and i guess my recent post, at that.
punkman: "this isn't the textbook I was expecting!" ?
mircea_popescu: punkman i believe it'd be the proposition that words work unequivocally and logic may be applied to natural language constructs.
mircea_popescu: him:lol yeah, it's an unusual writing style. It's like a mix of technical , story telling and stretched analogies. I'm sure you get a lot of hardcore readers who follow along. from a technical standpoint, its somewhat of a nightmare lol.
mircea_popescu: me :i have a lot to say :D
mircea_popescu: you have "science" which mostly consists of the sterile nonsense of "creationists" and a few fringe groups (homeopaths, scientologists, whatever nuts), some very primitive "o look, I discovered fractals" repackaging of basic understanding ("i fucking love science!11") and a bunch of bureaucracy-serving faux debates (o, really, 97.x% of the "scientists" hoping for a govt grant agree the govt position has scientific valu
mircea_popescu: i guess that makes me a terrorist AND a sociopath dunnit.
mircea_popescu: it'd be fucking ridiculous if i took my capital out of the bezzle, but allowed the emotional soliciting nonsense to continue.
mircea_popescu: what, gotta have my emotions available for use as part of the "productive future society" ? that's okay, i'm opting out.
fluffypony: has anyone written a blog post on what exactly makes the Bitcoin Foundation such a stupid idea? I mean besides their uselessnes to date, I mean fundamentally why it would never have worked regardless of who was at the top
mircea_popescu: "This is why I have not written about the most meaningful relationship of my life so far, or about my realising I want a life partner and children."
decimation: yeah, it is. I wonder if you will see a white/minority divide on bitcoin uptake. I can almost see the headlines now: "digital have-nots need free "access" to bitcoin to live"
mircea_popescu: well i guess bitcoin is jit then
decimation: do'h I missed the copy paste
mircea_popescu: i guess rational consistency isn't that big a deal when one's got feeeehlings.
decimation: actually no, federal minimum is $7.25 I think
mircea_popescu: i guess minimum wage is not 10 bux all over the us.
decimation: I like the "complained on reddit" detail
mircea_popescu: Ok, so Coinbase advertised (via a popup that appeared when I logged on) that if I complete my verification (which was already done), I'd get $5. It looked like a bug, but for $5 I clicked it anyway and apparently got nothing. And then of course like an idiot I complained about it on reddit. Now (several days later), I get $5 in bitcoin from Coinbase with a message that it's for completing my verification. Thank you Coi
decimation: yeah I'm in the us
decimation: I guess I need to figure out how to get a cheap foreclosure & then find an amish work team :)
artifexd: The two properties that I own returned their entire purchase price in 15 months from rent.
The20YearIRCloud: Yeah, it's on Havelock, i'll dig up link soon.
The20YearIRCloud: I'm really excited with where things are headed, our ROI internally is very solid, and leverage is only going to make it more pronounced. Lots of properties out there and our tenatnt pool continues to grow larger than we can supply.
decimation: The20YearIRCloud: I've traveled through rural Ohio, and I can't figure out where people make money. Do they mostly commute to the cities?
The20YearIRCloud: yay, i have a voice
TheNewDeal: the thing about google now is, I think it matters much less the first couple times you type something
TheNewDeal: so if my website is "atc.blahblahblah" I just have to be more popular than the websites that start with a***, at*, atc***
TheNewDeal: I think the gist was that most new search engines play off only the first few letters one types
TheNewDeal: just opened another beer before I finished the prior one. Sign of a good night
decimation: I want to move to an emacs-based chat client but I need to configure a cloud-host like ben_vulpes
decimation: mircea_popescu: so I need to find how to put a spell check on my irc, stream-of-conscience spelling doesn't work for me
decimation: kakobrekla: yeah i guess tab does auto-complete, thanks for the tip :)
decimation: I'm using konversation, I haven't really taken the time to learn the keystrokes
decimation: kakbrekla: heh yeah I was just looking at domains, the whole thing feels like a scam, especially now that there are 158 tlds
TheNewDeal: I'm an expert at signing up for shit...
mircea_popescu: then i can push you teh domains and that';s that.
decimation: I see the expirary date as listed above
TheNewDeal: I dont know how to do this deal. The only time I've done a webpage is when my university hosted it
mircea_popescu: you can just have the lot. where am i pushing them ?
TheNewDeal: i'd consider purchasing one if you're just going to let it lapse
mircea_popescu: jesus so i'm just going to let these bitcoin-financials.com/net/org expire ? nobody wants em ?
decimation: well, as you say, you can always sue, but the question is unsettled as far as I know: "The validity of arbitration clauses in the US is not a settled legal matter." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitration_in_the_United_States#Validity_of_arbitration_clauses
mircea_popescu: decimation i have no idea what bs the "arbitration" thing is.
BingoBoingo: cazalla: I see. Still a better situation than NFL commentators.
cazalla: i imagine it's more about the betting than the game nowadays, they've had sports bet owners masquerading as commentators in the past, i wouldn't even let my kid watch it if he was old enough to do so
BingoBoingo: I also like how the NRL has betting ticket prices on their front page
BingoBoingo: cazalla: I see.
cazalla: BingoBoingo, have not watched league since i was a kid, it's not as popular as it once was
mircea_popescu: so recently some new guy was in here with his old idea rehashed and i pointed out to him it'll never work, and it only seems to work for now, because it's not working yet.
decimation: I also find it amusing that the most important thing that the bureaucrats & academics start derping about are definitions
decimation: re: dynamic equilibrium of bitcoin: I'm pretty convinced that 99% of people born in the west (especially academic specialists) have no idea about 'money', 'currency' 'non-money commodities', whatever words you want to use to label it
mircea_popescu: what i'm talking about here is, every single college kid getting mailed those ccs ?
decimation: I wonder how many drug lord clients he has
DreadKnight: maybe I'm growing too old for sg D:
jborkl: Maybe they like getting laughed at while jerking off other dudes in the sauna, I never thought of it that way. MP you are always insightful
mircea_popescu: ""Ask anyone whose opinion matters, and they'll tell you Doug Stanhope is one of the top ten stand-ups in the world today. " dude there must be something to this seeing how i just randomly saw ten minutes of his act half hour ago and im already doing bookings.
xanthyos: not a fan of kinison. i think he's hacky
mircea_popescu: i wonder if he does private shows.
jborkl: but w/e, I have it all replicated anyway so its all good
jborkl: I have spent more time trying eep people out than getting people in
DreadKnight: now he talks money making strategies regarding his TCG while I haven't even seen a single screenie
DreadKnight: I don't get people living in hotels; know a dude around here that does that and works at a supermarket, the math is not right
mircea_popescu: "I plan on recording a music video with a girl which will help me gain validity and virality."
mircea_popescu: "I am currently living in a hotel room day to day and only have a couple days left before I will be homeless. This is bad because once I am without a place to live, it will only become harder to find one."
DreadKnight: I can see any vid, but hate when there are internet restrictions full of bs
mircea_popescu: "i'm one of the like 50k us people that can tell a story. i got my own website and seminars."
assbot: Mike Birbiglia: What I Should Have Said, Was Nothing - YouTube
mircea_popescu: "My struggle is that due to my honesty and adamancy to share what I learned through my journeys, many have come to judge me rather than seek to understand me."
mircea_popescu: "Hi, my name is Sean Martin. I have been active on these forums for three years now. I am an aspiring guitarist that has an important message to share with the world and a unique style and huge potential to make it big." << dank is incredibly fixated on his guitar stuff.
DreadKnight: true, I spend a lot of time on computer usually, told you before, jack of all trades atm, hopefully will specialize and stick with one thing, but sounds boring
DreadKnight: but yeah, I'm still figuring out things regarding mentality
mircea_popescu: <DreadKnight> I am poor too, trying to not be jelly on simple games that made lots of money << you are probably making the mistake of mentally restricting the universe to some sort of schoolyard definition of "merit"