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decimation: at my university I found these types "lecturing" freshman psychology, hoping to "earn" a phd in social science
asciilifeform: decimation: only goes so far. i really can't imagine this particular specimen thought it was skilled.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not sure how similar to your girl, but all i could think of in that lecture was 'why no one humanely shoots this broken horse?'
Pierre_Rochard: Right. Hmm. Going to sleep on this one now. I like the heuristic. I’ll be doing log reading this weekend with that in mind
mircea_popescu: i think so.
asciilifeform: 'but dr. x!! i just don't -get- euler's totient! pleeeease explain it again!'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i spoke to other people from that time, and they remember her. from other lectures.
Pierre_Rochard: Ah, I see what you mean now
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if i didn't know any better, i'd imagine we went to uni together. we had 'the same' chick! she bedeviled our number theory prof with at least a hundred very boneheaded questions every lecture. he seethed, boiled, but couldn't throw her out. why? 'registered special needs.' (going for math degree!) she even got unlimited time on exams. ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: lol i remember this story
mircea_popescu: now among this dozen, there was a mentally retarded girl. she wasn't badly touched, maybe 80 or so. definitely enough to take care of herself. definitely not enough for high level math. her parents however were i dun recall what academic country gentry, and so they insisted she go. ☟︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: so, when i went to hs, they made this special "suprareal" class. (in romanian, "real" means you do math, otherwise it's a chick hs doing languages, or a prole hs doing "skills"). they made the entrance so fucking hard tho that only about 18 kids out of the entire region made it. the remainder "fell through" to 3 normal "real" classes at this elite hs.
mircea_popescu: let me tell you a story, it'll perfectly well illustrate what i mean.
thickasthieves: ah i see
asciilifeform: unrelated - is kakobrekla awake? i wish to buy his gadget.
thickasthieves: i think it's where the wife wants to end up, deciding which nonprofits get pools of money
Pierre_Rochard: well yes, the socialite buys social capital, I would call them a successful socialite, I wouldn’t normally call them a successful businessperson. they would find it offensive to compare their activities to commercial ones
mircea_popescu: so if i spend capital to buy advertising im a bad businessman ?
thickasthieves: mp i agree strongly with this sentiment
Pierre_Rochard: a loss of capital. I disagree, capital does accumulate
Pierre_Rochard: I wouldn’t describe the wealthy heiress who is very busy organizing charity galas to be a “business success” - however much she’s “doing things”. Her business is structurally running a loss
thickasthieves: <+mircea_popescu> course from what i hear they've been skimping on the catering. // what, dollars grow on trees?
Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu I think that widens the definition of “business” a bit much. being the accountant that I am, I always look at that net income line. perhaps to my detriment
mircea_popescu: course from what i hear they've been skimping on the catering.
Pierre_Rochard: Agreed, I suspect the people who respond to bloomberg surveys are a few layers below “financial elite”
mircea_popescu: anymore than i'd hold anything jezebel publishes against "hot college sluts"
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard i wouldn't hold anything bloomberg says against the "financial elite".
benkay: so what'd i miss last two days?
asciilifeform: (before anyone asks - no, i have not the faintest idea whether norman yarvin is a relative of curtis)
princessnell: i think that's right
princessnell: well, i'm going to school for econ, which has applicable tools
princessnell: nah, i just read a lot
mircea_popescu: "as a creator of a google, I know what made google successful!"
mircea_popescu: i get more for .1 a tit for crying out loud. wasn't the usg supposed to be like rich and powerful and whatnot ?
mircea_popescu: princessnell: As the creator of a digital currency, I..." << derp's never ending quest for relevancy.
thickasthieves: <+fluffypony> "I think money is exactly ... lulz abound
thickasthieves: <+princessnell> "As the creator of a digital currency, I..." /// wtf is this, major media shilling alts day?
fluffypony: "I think money is exactly the same. I don’t think consumers will care much for the community their coin has; they will care about the algorithm. Or, more accurately, they will care about how the coin performs (mining cost, speed, security) because of that algorithm."
asciilifeform: 'Since my body is a shell / I am going to take it off / and put on a glory that will never wear out.' (one mr. kenzo ishijima)
princessnell: "As the creator of a digital currency, I..."
kakobrekla: i just like the pics.
thickasthieves: i should do $500/seat L2Bitcoin seminars for the local mexicans and guatemalans
mircea_popescu: but yes, i daresay that i'd still chat up women in the andes. wtf do i care about survival anyway.
mircea_popescu: i know a few women i'm kinda tempted to eat with some regularity.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: unless i misunderstand, you're trying to say to a fellow in padded cell, 'stop banging head.' generally good advice - except that sex drive doesn't ship with an 'off' switch.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think there's a space between arguing that nobody should bang head against wall and arguing everyone should be god.
asciilifeform: mike_c: i vaguely recall some joker who wrote a complete 386 pc emulator in about 1k of perl. that's the kind of thing being spoken of, i think.
los_pantalones: i suspect we are far from alone
thickasthieves: i thought the rest were real exchanges
asciilifeform: the notion that every male of the species can turn into mircea_popescu by effort of will is, at the very least, misguided. i catch quite a bit of crap for insisting that virtually everyone can, e.g., learn mathematics - so i sympathize. but it's still mistake.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i tell ye, if i perceived i HAD TO chat up women i'd be a fucking homicidal maniac, notwithstanding amazing success rates. even if i never left my own harem and so my success rate was forever 100%.
mircea_popescu: "I don't think an average man can pursue women effectively if he is primarily thinking about how good sex will feel when he gets it. That just isn't the right mindset when a man has to chat up dozens of women before he finds one with whom sex is a reasonable possibility." holy shit, with what woman is sex not a reasonable possibility ?!
mircea_popescu: "By the first time I had "sex" (depending on how you define it, since I took things in stages) I had already endured years of frustration and humiliation of an intensity that I don't think I can properly put into words." a ok. ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you're not in the market for a trambourghini, either, as i understand.
mircea_popescu: if sex robots were widely available today, i'd prolly still not use them. (for that matter, indiancandy is a sex robot, not terribly expensive - a good server costs more than what she would)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't see that as an argument at all. just... you know, drool.
CoinFire: BBL Going to work on a few different things, I'll try and drop in often :)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i understand, he was discussing why the robots are inevitable from a market standpoint (there are quite a few paupers, and they all want wheels. so we get trambourghini.)
assbot: Women from all races want to bang rich, successful guys. I find it merely curiou - Pastebin.com
asciilifeform: if i remember, these folks don't go the pure squatter route, but actually make contact with megacorps and their lead marketing monkeys
asciilifeform: now the interesting part. as i recall, the company in palahniuk's comedy actually exists...
thickasthieves: well i didnt know it was actually a word
thickasthieves: i liked Haunted most i think
asciilifeform: GlucoCure, I read. InsulinEase. PancreAid. Hemazine. Glucodan. Growdenase.'
asciilifeform: 'I ask him, Why sometimes not? “The way this works is we copyright every conceivable combination of words, Greek words, Latin, English, what-have-you. We get the legal rights to every conceivable word a pharmaceutical company might use to name a new product. For diabetes alone, we have an inventory of one hundred forty names,” he says. He hands me stapled-together pages from out of his briefcase in his lap.
asciilifeform: '“Just name a disease,” he says, “and we have a cure ready for it.” ... The pills for AIDS look just like the pills for cancer look just like the pills for diabetes. I ask, So these things really aren’t invented? ... “Of course they’re real,” he says and plucks the first two bottles out of my hands. “They’re copyrighted. We have an inventory of almost fifteen thousand copyrighted names for pr
thickasthieves: i wonder if any of our fake name businesses became real ones since
kakobrekla: i guess if i make my surname justin, then i can have case and time for kids.
CoinFire: I will be sure to get my keys and everything worked out this week as well :) Been working on a lot of stuff. It seems it never ends.
CoinFire: I'll take it!!
CoinFire: I totally should fluffypony ;)
fluffypony: chetty: Google Web Fonts, I'm a big fan
pankkake: I'm a fan of just using the default browser font (just use "sans-serif"). assuming most platforms have one that is not ugly.
pankkake: actually I'm wrong, I have it through google fonts I guess. and yeah, disabling it it's much better, it's too thin
CoinFire: Then literally two days later, a church. I just head to shake my head.
CoinFire: Do people still even use Papyrus? That was something I asked myself recently then I saw a hair salon had it as a giant window sticker and was just like UGH
pankkake: "Raleway"? I don't have it, so that's why the website looks nice to me
thickasthieves: yeah it's just too thin, well for google fonts, i recall Cabin being a good one
CoinFire: I'll agree thickasthieves on the font statement. I am likely going to try and get that changed this week. Another thing on the list of things lol. I find it hard to read on my iPad so it has to change :)
CoinFire: They've sent me some stuff and I've been waiting further confirmation from the insurance company. We will see how it plays out and if I learn more I will most certainly be updating things and posting a new entry for everyone :)
thickasthieves: (i still think your blog needs a new body font btw)
thickasthieves: i liked the coinjelly stuff, i noticed they wanted to talk privately, did anything come of that?
thickasthieves: "I'm in."
pankkake: wow, maybe I'll buy a Dell U3011 after all :)
mthreat: not sure i'd call it a niche
pankkake: I really can't write lately
mircea_popescu: actually i dont think i ever bought a diff rackable server.
thickasthieves: k i left link in his blog
thickasthieves: it sounds official cuz i said official
mircea_popescu: chetty: desperate for news? << no, desperate for "alternatives". and they'd better fucking find some, because I will fuck up with their careers.
thickasthieves: all i'm sayin
thickasthieves: i just disagree that it's all or nothing
thickasthieves: well i agree with you in that too much weight is being attributed to this concern
mircea_popescu: because i suspect maybe this conceptual harness works more like a control tool directed towards the user
mircea_popescu: i'm sitting here building a system that exists to beat into submission the us congress and it all depends on whether google delists me or not.
mircea_popescu: i'm not sure ghetto is the word.
thickasthieves: but i also used to sell brochures and websites for a living, sooooo....
thickasthieves: i guess i'm just saying it's maybe a lil ghetto to have no website for days
mircea_popescu: anyway, the gpg blob from the engineer in charge was so long this morning i thought at first he's gonna kill himself and is sending me his life story.
mircea_popescu: i k r ?