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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.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field if it doesn't have a -Y mode (assume y on all questions) yes.
mircea_popescu: very similar situation to the entire "we don't spy on citizens, the brits did, as part of an agreement we made with them, so whatcha gonna do"
mircea_popescu: <mats> mighta had a chance if privately owned by black disabled lesbian << no. belgian firm has to import weapons, so they can be kept off mnarket. colt does not hyave to import anythinfg, can just turn around and sell. the usg will award no further contracts for anything to anyone who can also sell to us civillians, jus watch.
mircea_popescu: user has the option to provide input, program that depends on input to run was shipped broken
mircea_popescu: never, ever, EVERY may any input be required from the user imperatively.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> this will be a substantial change in default behaviour, because the thing ~will~ have to be given irc server params on command line, and/or seed ips, or ~will not run~ << this is the wrong approach. config file, with sane defaults.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> i consider this to be a necessary thing << it is.
mircea_popescu: i suspect the usg policy against private small arms has finally found the chokehold : drive the manufacturers out of business.
mircea_popescu: so there was a blood gorged mosquito on the wall. as i didn't want to leave a splotch, i hit it in such a manner as to only dizzy it. i can now disable-shot mosquitors.
mircea_popescu: how much would they have to pay ME to spend an hour in a cab with any regularity ?
mircea_popescu: germany is ridoinculous with their 5 euro a km bs, but then again germany is usually walkable.
mircea_popescu: which i would loathe, as i routinely reject living anywhere with shitty cabs
mircea_popescu: ascii_field myeah, uber does seem like the usgs last gasp effort to "socialism" the cabbuie business
☟︎ mircea_popescu: tbh i never ordered anything online in romania, either.
mircea_popescu: all those dongs were bought at indian candy's chocolateria
mircea_popescu: "my car crashed because there was a flyer in a window painted in green letters"