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assbot: Logged on 28-04-2014 09:30:07; cazalla: i went to
a walk in medical centre with issues about my neck as I couldn't get an appointment at my usual GP, the GP at the walk in just assumed I was after pain meds and wrote
a script for endone (oxycodone) without any hesitation to get me the fuck out of there
Azelphur: I still have half
a tonne of codeine left over from when I had my wisdom tooth out lol
mircea_popescu: jesus these people derping about codeine. here's
a fun fact : as
a growing tyke in soviet romania, mp like any other chitlins was administered phosphoric codeine freely for coughs.
cazalla: drugstore cowboy is
a good one imo
mircea_popescu: people love to imagine that playing ball has no costs. this is not unlike the chipper's fantasy that he's not
a junkie.
mircea_popescu: yeah, good deal. very comfortable, they can charge for
a hairjob/blowjob twice to ten times what
a starving ukrainian student gets away with
mircea_popescu: 'while the locals can choose from
a variety of hospitality jobs, from hairdresser ot prostitute ?
mircea_popescu: also an erstwhile major international power, that's meanwhile become
a reservation/zoo.
mircea_popescu: they lost everything, over
a coupla decades, simply for acquiescing to the kyc/aml bullcrap.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, in the 90s they were
a major international player
mircea_popescu: in the former, the derps think the us is ok. in the latter, the derps realise the us is
a terrorist entreprise.
decimation: the bigger puzzle is why such
a company has any clients at all
decimation: related:
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/02/the-nsa-and-me/ << "Many were embarrassingly critical of the agency, describing its enormous paranoia and obsession with secrecy. Others contained clues to
a secret trips that Friedman had made to Switzerland, where he helped the agency gain backdoor access into encryption systems that
a Swiss company was selling to foreign countries."
mircea_popescu: where
a good heuristic for peopleness is
a strict disinterest in politeness.
assbot: Logged on 02-04-2014 23:54:03; asciilifeform: i've tried this personally - it works. (you need
a drive for which either docs or some reverse-engineerable flash diddler from the factory are available.)
decimation: for another thing the practical folks are off doing something useful rather than travelling to LA to 'agree on
a spec'
mircea_popescu: and if we ever run out of money, we'll withdraw infinity from
a negative account!
mircea_popescu: what the shit is it supposed to be, like
a self-eating snake ?
mircea_popescu: the spec is about as stupid as
a hardware spec could be.
assbot: Logged on 14-06-2014 01:12:04; asciilifeform: dignork: sandisk used to make
a line of usb micros called 's3', that had this feature
assbot: Logged on 02-08-2014 17:42:01; asciilifeform: dignork: as i pointed out ages ago to ninjaspamgun, it is the responsibility of operating system to enumerate, e.g. only usb dildo on
a given port, and not keyboard or whatnot
mircea_popescu: fun fact : Belize, Central African Republic, Djibouti all have
a lower yearld gdp
mircea_popescu: lol apparently the weev dude is now
a white supremacist.
decimation: with bitcoin, the 'free market' in us finance starts to look like
a massive dekulakization experiment
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah I figured it was hopeless, but I wanted to pretend like my bezzlars were not locked in
a usg approved cage
mircea_popescu: <decimation> indeed. The other day I was trying to find an etf or stock that didn't depend on 'bezzle' (ie usg fiat finance). I didn't succeed. << this is roughly equivalent to, "the other day, i tried to find
a natural process going backwards in entropy. i didn't succeed"
decimation: I've been on it
a couple times. it's luxurious to weave across 3 empty lanes
decimation: asciilifeform: I assume you live in some old suburb near DC - have you ever sat down to total the 'value' of the homes within
a few blocks of where you live?
decimation: in more other words, the 'political will' of
a collection of elected lawyers with real estate side business all agree that they should not pay while others pay
decimation: people,
a billion dollars is
a lot of money for
a relatively small number of people.'"'
decimation: "Donna Steele Flynn,
a former member of the House Ways and Means Committee staff who is now
a tax specialist with Ernst & Young, said, ''The only reason this hasn't gotten fixed is because the official Joint Tax Committee estimate in the past was that repeal of Section 1706 would cost
a billion dollars in tax revenue over five years.''There is
a political will on both sides of the aisle, but in terms of importance and number of
decimation:
a friend told me that when he was three, his mom took her cash receipts from the family restaurant to the auditor, along with the screaming three year old. the auditor settled for $100 after
a few hours of screaming
diametric: yeah. though if you pay the usg something instead of trying to null out the taxes, it goes
a long way to avoiding troubles in the future, or so I heard from friends of mine that have been independent contractors for decades.
decimation: there's no doubt that 'owning'
a business is
a good way to skate usg taxes
mircea_popescu takes cabs, deduces receipts.
a dollar
a km in .ro shithole, 5 eu/km in germany, etc.
mircea_popescu: yeah, if you're
a woman you can't sue yourself for having jacked off in your home office.
diametric: 56 cents per mile, all my tolls, my internet, my "home office", any equipment i buy for said home office, pretty much anything that has
a realistic tie to me being
a contractor is eligible.
decimation: although even the independent contractor can't buy
a company car for commuting, because the irs says so
assbot: How
a Tax Law Helps Insure
a Scarcity of Programmers - New York Times
decimation: meanwhile there's
a special exception written in the law that requires the irs to presume that engineers are not independent contractors
mircea_popescu: s
a secial extemption written in the law against people like it folks being independent.
mircea_popescu: decimation> my point is that
a real estate agent is considered an independent contractor even when she works in an office with
a secretary <<< there
decimation: beyond the usurious rates, it is
a double insult that usg insists that you participate in its crimes against honest accounting while paying 'tax' with your tax
decimation: my point is that
a real estate agent is considered an independent contractor even when she works in an office with
a secretary
decimation: asciilifeform: there's
a great deal of bureaucracy surrounding employment in the us
mike_c: since we got the lulztron back.. the RENT 3po closed yesterday selling shares for 75. today they are back at 40. quite
a 1 day return.
mod6: been
a long time since i looked at that. saw we're under 100k blocks to go
gribble: Error: "rewardhalf" is not
a valid command.
danielpbarron: seems to be
a very large number of transactions happening at the moment, from my full node's point of view
mircea_popescu: jurov you will notice that
a) all this was injected into the conversation via bitbet and b) fucktards, srsly.
mircea_popescu: *: punkman remembers the derps trying to do webfonts before we had webfonts <<< now that was
a riot
cazalla: thickasthieves: yknow i'm ok with qntra being all barebones design, but why on god's green earth is it left-aligned? <<< just turn your head
a little to the left, fixed
bounce: fanbois will be fanbois. people fawning over powershell like it's the bestest thing evar and not, oh, twenty years late to the party? bit of
a giveaway.
BingoBoingo: jurov: Wait, WindowsX has
a clicky graphical dialogue for... Setting command line properties?
BingoBoingo: Seems so. Buterin's waterfall keeps
a churning
bounce: you'd have to release the notion of getting an identical picture everywhere. you're not serving up "an experience" or "
a picture" or whatever, you're serving up content.
BingoBoingo: I don't think the current super mininum style is going to be
a permanent feature on qntra, but... page load times are
a thing. Got to plan for people accessing the internet using dialup through
a payphone.
thickasthieves: i understand that
a spec for website data would be convenient and provide ease and cleanliness from one perspective
mircea_popescu: the scammer train : all scammers who stil believe can hide in plain sight can conveniently claim that
a well known scammer owes them.
gribble: Error: "getturst" is not
a valid command.
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> at least euro is also worthless << lol keep
a stiff upper lip!
Dimsler: would just leave
a roving order hanging
mats_cd03: like, hm, this is happening right now. i'm watching
a man die.
mats_cd03: mircea_popescu: well, you did use the phrase '
a man being savaged', and well, being
a gangster in your youth. plus, the only images i've seen of you are in suits
Dimsler: maybe he thinks you're
a savage in
a suit?
Dimsler: must make
a microsoft account to use
mats_cd03: i'm told by
a reverser i trust that windows 10 is boring from an internal perspective
Dimsler: they should have just had
a duel
mats_cd03: i watched
a man get savaged outside of
a bar last night by
a well dressed man
mircea_popescu: eulora is not an eyecandy delivery device like every other mmorpg out there, competing in
a saturated market without
a bottom.
bounce: huh. bcoinnews is serving up
a sack of html as text/plain. no wonder it doesn't render.
mircea_popescu: it'd harder than mpex. this shit where i write the loot functions... god fucking help me i've never seen
a more complex problem.