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mircea_popescu: meanwhile, all people fucking the same woman also share a relationship. they're sogori
mircea_popescu: in romanian, all people with the same first name share a relationship. they're each other's tiz (read exactly like tease).
kakobrekla: not if its for a pie
mircea_popescu: "people around the office have seen your drafts, and they have proved very divisive. people can not agree on which are good or better and there have even been arguments. this sort of subversive activity is completely inappropriate for an office setting. i would like you to complete a sensitivity training course for art people."
mircea_popescu: so here's a clients from hell idea. art guy sent me proofs for eulora flora/fauna, i could send him an email going
mircea_popescu: you don't understand. A PULSE. that's it.
asciilifeform: all it takes to speak at mit is a pulse << nah. yours truly, for instance, has pulse, but will not be invited to speak there. etc
thestringpuller: i should go to MIT and start a drug business with bitcoin since they've already seeded the coins
mircea_popescu: all it takes to speak at mit is a pulse.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller a better question is who DIDNT speak at mit.
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> or at least, deliver via husks rather than actual creators << dude, nobody wants to spend 3 minutes watching a "creator" that's not female, not properly jugged and not properly skinned.
ThickAsThieves: the singing and lyrics are written for a 3yo retard
ThickAsThieves: like i thought it was a joke
ThickAsThieves: indie music kinda jived with pop music back then a bit
ThickAsThieves: thats why 80s-00s ruined shit, they made music a business model, all they needed was a husk amd some writers
kakobrekla: you need to 'register for a flash sale' to get these
thestringpuller: so this is a recent development?
thestringpuller: like for instance Jay-Z can announce a concert and it sales out
ThickAsThieves: a label can be any subset or all services required to have a music business
ThickAsThieves: that's the key component of a distributor ;)
thestringpuller: whats the key component of a label? i originally thought distribution but i'm certain i'm wrong
ThickAsThieves: there's a cool short about wearables in The Black Mirror
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves that existed for a while now, and better adapted for the job.
ThickAsThieves: itll be a pro security tool or such maaaaybe eventually
ThickAsThieves: nothing feels more douchey than wearing a wearable
ThickAsThieves: the watch was a bad idea
kakobrekla: supposedly a quality iphone lookalike that runs some android for much less dorra
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla because if you have a lot of money and not much thought leadership you will be scammed.
pete_dushenski: kakobrekla: they do nao that they've had a few years to copy the original. but the fruit brand is still the fruit brand. lv is still lv
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla honestly, my thinking was, "either apple actually comes with holodisplays for a 2015ish horizon, or it won't matter by 2020"
ThickAsThieves: i dont keep a real cell phone, just a 7" tablet with data plan
pete_dushenski: wyrdmantis: not a security thing, no.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: not just one man. the man with something to say. there was never anything of any value or utility come from listening "to people" and "their needs" << the apple watch is past the inflection point. a point that was, in my estimation, the iphone 5's 4" screen
kakobrekla: first econometric task could be to measure the circumference of a bitcoin
wyrdmantis: pete_dushenski: and i've started study coding... but the topic is huge... maybe with a little guidance...
mircea_popescu: i suppose they musta done a full 64 byte rewrite of the engine or something
punkman: I made a lot of the open source ones crash last year, client was fine with his Excel
mircea_popescu: so i wiped a laptop, installed ubuntu, installed open office and had it load the thing and cut out the spurious data.
wyrdmantis: pete_dushenski: i was wondering... would you give me a little loan, to improve my WoT? there are better ways?
mircea_popescu: because at some point a bunch of derps in an office "we dunno why our computers are all borkt we had ppl repair them 5x but not able to fix"
ThickAsThieves: you want a pile of cheese and meat? you got it!
pete_dushenski: i think the only time i've been to a tgif was in nyc in 2000. i'll never forget it because it was the first time i saw a menu with a whole page for "the atkins diet"
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: i stopped the car, got out and spent the next hour screaming at people on the phone. << nao there's a man who doesn't take shit from people who are used to giving it all day.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: the original 'salami slicer' thief, if i recall, stole the rounding error at a large bank. << as seen in canonical movie "office space" (1999(
pete_dushenski: ThickAsThieves: sometimes i feel like unconvertible Excel files are the only reason MS still exists << xls has no problem being turned into google docs. though that may be about as big a difference as bush and obama.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: a didn't know this was fait accompli
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski tanks haven't had plain optics for a while now. too hard to shield.
mircea_popescu: the fundamentalist mormon state a distant second
BingoBoingo: There once was a mayor named Ford, of wood he cut a full cord. Twas his abode! Oh how he felt like a chode. And then there was another Mayor named Ford.
pete_dushenski: then what of that cia joke a week ago that made me lol so?
mircea_popescu: here at house of b-a no joke sir. no joke at all.
mike_c: <+mircea_popescu> mike_c btw, make yourself a banner << hm? a banner for what?
mircea_popescu: mike_c btw, make yourself a banner for the thing, you get a month.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, it's a big city, 20mn or so, plenty of room for derpage here.
mircea_popescu: "After a brief introduction to some of the building’s chief organizers, along with a tour of the facility, I was a fellow citizen in good standing, in the world of Bitcoin. "
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol: ha - derps are setting up shop in BA << it's a big town
mircea_popescu: it was one of those bright engineering ideas what does in fact work as intended, but causes such a pile of unintended consequences as to wipe out any benefit.
mircea_popescu: many different fixes for many different aspects. either a fixed date, not such large blocks on sale, not such strictly fixed prices etc.
kakobrekla: so basically a hardcoded date should be a fix for this
kakobrekla: a right.
kakobrekla: among the two named individuals, each receiving a block of 1`000`000 (one million) shares.
mike_c: sweet. i think any changes that involve giving mike some stuff is a good idea.
mircea_popescu: hrm? is a very bad error message!1
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla well it's 30% on sale and 10% a head held in reserve making for 50%
mircea_popescu: seeing how it's been about two years and the 30% still ain't all sold, and given that the contract was made at a btc of like 15 so it significantly misjudges things, and seeing how us having 0 shares in hand is inconvenient because we want to do things like give mike some shares cause he keeps doing cool shit
mircea_popescu: by the way, BitBet announcement : the contract specifies 30% of shares are sold on a increasing schedule, after their being sold me and kako each get 10% into our accounts.
mircea_popescu: i guess ima run a poll see if people want fambly friendly or what.
mircea_popescu: if you look at a map, it's outside the perimeter i described :)
los_pantalones: i'll be in bucharest next summer for a bit, i'll report on the veracity of your claims
mircea_popescu: maybe you get a ny deli with decent stuff most of the time, maybe you're willing to drop 20k euro a month to eat properly in paris,
mircea_popescu: im like... you're such a fucking retard, i live here for the food motherfucker.
los_pantalones: where 50% of the ppl there are just a network of pickpockets
los_pantalones: but ppl would come running in a panice
mircea_popescu: to me too. and i got a 100 pesos samsung dumbphone. it's light, i couldn't care less if someone steals it. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: because they've convinced themselves this happens. meanwhile, it never does. walk queens you'll see a mugging every day. walk chacarrita and glty, you got better chances to see a comet.
mircea_popescu: decimation: when I was a boy scout in my youth I went hiking up in Philmont in northern new mexico - they told horror stories << re retarded human shamans : here they tell horror stories about muggings. i have, in months, observed exactly one attempt, and it was a clearly us bum trying to pass himself as belgian and doing the talking business. clueless enough to not even fucking spot me, the idiot. but otherwise : ever
mircea_popescu: decimation: TheNewDeal: i've heard that black bears aren't so aggressive as long as you don't corner a cub << bears generally aren't aggressive at all. felides&canides are aggressive if very hungry or during mating season, but otherwise you can get out and people have for ages. animal aggressivity is a cost/benefit consideration, they';re not the convenient antichrist retarded human shamans preach.
punkman: sounds more like a coworking space than embassy
decimation: so the solar flare last week produced a coronal mass ejection that hit the earth and did not cause The End of Days, but it did make pretty aurorae in Norway http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=101723
decimation: wild animal knows that no good can come from me, from a man. He tries to escape. Here, it’s about who outsmarts whom."
decimation: reminds me of that Herzog documentary "Happy People". One of the men they follow is a trapper who spends the Siberian winter alone in the taiga trapping animals. He said "I used to raise cattle, and I could never bring myself to slaughter them. Because there is, say, a bull. You raise him for two years. It comes to you expecting you to show affection or give it some treat and instead he gets a bullet in the head. In the taiga, the
TheNewDeal: "The bear continued to roam around the campground. It was shot later that morning by a ranch employee." Nice transition
decimation: when I was a boy scout in my youth I went hiking up in Philmont in northern new mexico - they told horror stories of bears ripping open tents and mauling inhabitants because they could smell food or hygiene products
TheNewDeal: decimation ever seen pictures of that guy who would let a bear wrap its jaws around his head?
TheNewDeal: We were playing games at night as a child, someone mistook a small bear cub for me, got real close, but nothing came of it
decimation: TheNewDeal: i've heard that black bears aren't so aggressive as long as you don't corner a cub
asciilifeform: decimation: 500k buys a small house here where i live...
decimation: "Anheuser-Busch paid the town $500,000 to transform the mountain community into a Budweiser paradise as part of the beer giant’s “Up For Whatever” ad campaign."
decimation: relatedly, elsewhere in colorado the barons who own Anheiser Bush/InBev decided to purchase a town for their own amusement: http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/2014/09/15/bud-light-posts-first-whatever-usa-ad-youtube/112778/
mircea_popescu: his son was caught with a load of cocaine once
mircea_popescu: unlike the god forsaken plains to the south, romania has a great hunting history
TheNewDeal: saw a black bear there 2 years ago, was a small one that was up in a tree, just about broke the branch it was on while reaching for some food
decimation: no one in the us is equal enough for such a privilege
asciilifeform: and vox populi, vox Führer, at the risk of mixing things up a bit...
decimation: "Wildlife officials are offering a $2,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the poacher or poachers responsible for killing a black bear with a series of arrow strikes."
decimation: precisely. or a shotgun if too close
decimation: it seems the human's advantage in such a fight would be to rely on tools
asciilifeform digs for ancient report of zoologies who lost fingers, toes, nose, ears, eyes, cock to chimps in one evening. beasts he worked with for a decade, who decided to have some sudden fun.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform fun fact : the carpathian brown bear is just about human range. you'd get about one boy per generation per village that could wrestle a bear.
mircea_popescu: "Back in the early half of the century, circuses used to hold fights between apes and the strongest men in the town they were touring through. The men were generally knocked unconscious just a few seconds into the fight, after the first blow from the ape."