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mircea_popescu: im definitely going to run a few, just as soon as we're in a position to actually package one
☟︎ mircea_popescu: a hard fork is this enchanted moment when you borrow the heavenly forge and ... well... rewrite the rules.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: everyone can just throw out their old computers. not like they're useful or anything.
mircea_popescu: but for the record, no hard fork proposal can be seriously considered that fails to include a fix for such scatteromobilia throughout the codebase.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: myeah. mod dropped teh ball, an' as a result im out a coupla bitcoins now.
mircea_popescu: i do not know you. we can't talk privately for this reason.
mircea_popescu: cue kid come visiting, "hey, is that the car ???" pointing at a yellow futuristic looking bridge with some wheels attached
mircea_popescu: who the fuck cares what some jerk thought he would do if he had your toy ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have read in the sense of moved my eyes over them and decyphered the letters. i have not read in the sense i understand this sufficiently.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you think it feasible to run one on nsa servers ?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski less than what ? about on par with mouth and labia/penis head.
mircea_popescu: (the one medically notable thing about alcoholics is that their liver is shot)
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski your saliva is eventually shat out, but little arse herpes described.
mircea_popescu: but in 80% ish of alcoholics and in 3% ish of normal people.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform also, re the liver stressing ; herpes C generates liver disease all the way to cirhosis.
mircea_popescu: so how does it jump from the right to the left trigeminus ?
mircea_popescu: if you look at the nerves, there's really very little contact / very good separation between the strands
mircea_popescu: it's not too well understood what it does. but trivially : you don't have monolaterality in observed cases
mircea_popescu: even leaving aside the "we've arbitrarily divided this virus up into 3 no wait 7 no wait 16 no wait nm groups", the notion that "i don't have herpes" is to be translated as "i read very little and understand even less".
mircea_popescu: cause for some reason it's where it mostly manifests, esp in young people.
mircea_popescu: except pretty much everyone can be made to develop mouth herpes by stressing the liver in a particular manner
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if it's been 16% for a week, you don't get it by fucking herpetic whores bareback, you get it from being genetically broken in that way
mircea_popescu: if you think about it, most newly introduced (ie, no equilibrium reached yet) infections go from 16% to 100% in two days
mircea_popescu: a) that infection is unrelated to exposure in any form ; b) that "fighting" pointless "battles" is the best way to waste public money in relative personal safety ; c) canada is broadly iliterate
mircea_popescu: i dunno why epidemiology is so hard to follow, but let's add two and two together. two one : the virus is not a new introduction. two two : the virus is stable aroun 16-18% infections.
mircea_popescu: the interest, here or anywhere, for the deeds of anyone pretending to be in cryptocurrency who doesn't meet the minimum bar of competency for that field is not unlike the interest we show scientists that can't add. "will there be nudity ?"
mircea_popescu: adam_obrien the correct way to use this is exactly backwards : tell would be whoevers on twitter to get into the wot.
mircea_popescu: that thing where they gang together to try and force the male hand.
mircea_popescu: or, more properly stated : that it offers a usable, cheap counterbalance to the female community behaviour.
mircea_popescu: anyway, porn has at least the very important social function that it models female behaviour.
mircea_popescu: didn't you link some pics of soviet food and declare they made you drool a little ago ?
mircea_popescu: but the value of pornography is novelty rather than function
mircea_popescu: the "ambush done right" is this thing still awaiting embodiement irl.
mircea_popescu: small caliber not such a bad idea. bb sprayer even better, of course.
mircea_popescu: decimation the problem those ports were probably trying to address is not "middle of tank battle" but "tank got ambushed by infantry"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i thought zamac is actually an alloy not a carbide
mircea_popescu: (break a "solid metal" chinese item - see the porous microstructure)
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> Now clay is a material with wildly inconsistent properties << the difference between properly fired fine clay and the bizarre ceramic-like metal replacement the chinese use is slight.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to take a page out of alf's book, "we will know terminal decline stage by this sign, that ivy-limp bureaucrats will organise tranny beheading parties and then gather the heads in a sack and take them to isis, as a ritual sacrifice. much to everyone's confusion and wtf in that camp."
mircea_popescu: they're simply some kids that don't give a shit about a particular set of conventional nonsense
mircea_popescu: "the nihilist ISIS Islamist horror show" heh. some kids not giving a shit about these kids circlejerk does not actually enact them into some sort of objective absolute.
mircea_popescu: trinque> knew NaCL was going to be activex-google-edition << word.