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punkman: it has features and an app and even a customer support hotline
Vexual: a bit of the `ol "in-out" huh?
decimation: as long as there are no pathological correlations it will be fine for my purposes (anything that looks strange on a very large fft for instance)
decimation: I was planning on using it as a noise generator (uniform -> gaussian)
asciilifeform: intel cpu is not exactly a rarity.
asciilifeform: likewise, a junior (less than x years, forget what x) official cannot pronounce judgement, he only forwards a recommendation 'approve/deny' to senior gruppenfuhrer.
decimation: the 'blog' (is a blog post from wapo like a 'story lite'?) makes it seem like no one at the patent office has a relationship with reality
asciilifeform: 'lying' is too charitable a word.
asciilifeform: 'The examiner alerted a supervisor about the fraud, but “he says he cannot do anything as long as she meets her production,” the whistleblower wrote.' << how this is a problem ?
asciilifeform: the patent office thing is a crock of shit.
decimation: looks like the promised geomagnetic storm was mostly a dud: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
asciilifeform: the nice thing about being a hardened paranoiac is that you are effectively immune to accidental death...
asciilifeform: but a u.s. subject can die of lightning and car wreck a dozen times before getting 'accidentally policed' to death.
BingoBoingo: Of course the huy who zipped himself in had consented earlier in life to be a part of that apparatus and "quit"
mircea_popescu: "my gopro's been filming you all along. you're a youtube sensation now, congrats."
asciilifeform: 'your Honour, i've a hidden camera in my toilet tank, it filmed the hextuple-orifice motorized police rape of my person.' judge: 'court orders that Sgt. Coquthrobb retrieve evidence...'
mircea_popescu: eh get out, you hve to get a special permit for that.
asciilifeform: but any kind of uplink a 'plebe' can get hold of at reasonable expense - yes, jammed.
asciilifeform: afaik, they don't run a gigantic spark gap jammer during a bust - yet.
mircea_popescu: but yes, web streaming cameras are a pretty good repellant
asciilifeform: a 'classroom' example necessarily overdramatizes.
asciilifeform: (for an expensive but lively lesson in 'law' and law, purchase, e.g., a pill press.)
asciilifeform: owning a kugelrohr in present-day usa.
asciilifeform: graphical terminals for proles, while having an actual computer in your possession will be seen as rather like owning, e.g., a Kugelrohr.
decimation: http://www.isegoria.net/2014/09/ask-peter-thiel-anything/ << "Is Palantir a front for the CIA? No, the CIA is a front for Palantir." "I don’t agree with the libertarian description of the NSA as “big brother.” I think Snowden revealed something that looks more like the Keystone Kops and very little like James Bond."
BingoBoingo snacks on Chicken gizzards, seasoned with anchovie, fried in lard. That includes at least a member of each major class of warm blooded critter endemic today, right.
mircea_popescu: this is like reminding me that a cd press is expensive.
asciilifeform: decimation: approximately everyone who gives half a damn knows the 'why.'
The20YearIRCloud: One of our investors pointed out a extraordinarily large funding round that went through for a 1050+ unit buy here in Central Ohio, the financial metrics were absolutely fantastic
asciilifeform: decimation: expect it'll be called something else in a year or three.
The20YearIRCloud: I've been looking into investment options once we get our 506c and it's crazy how much money is being thrown at 1st and 2nd stage tech startups, then someone brings forward a really, really good real estate deal and they take forever to fund
decimation: infineon was a Siemens spinoff, a successful one at that
BingoBoingo: The20YearIRCloud: Because White people are a bunch of fucking Niggers
BingoBoingo: egold was a stupid structure pretending to permanence
BingoBoingo: The worst part of this misdemeanor thing is that Illinois has a solid collection of my fingerprints
BingoBoingo: Oh, but the ATF's Fast and Furious was a thing, and ISIS is apparently now the biggest thing.
BingoBoingo: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?sche=dongxi&id=22327319935&spm=2014.21481949.1.0 << Why I'm rooting for Spanish to win the language war. I can deal with a Latin alphabet.
mircea_popescu: "Douban.com is a multi-products web platform which generated based on life-and-culture oriented ... Morecontents by users"
BingoBoingo: Next door in Kansas there's Manhattan with a Univeristy and well... who knows really what their bio department does.
BingoBoingo: Then there's Columbia, Missouri which is Missouri's Third City and boasts one of the United State's highest per capita concentrations of persons with Graduate degrees despite being located in Missouri. The reason for this being the University, a couple other colleges, and so many fucking hospitals.
assbot: Everyone's a Scammer | Satoshi Nakamoto Institute
bitstein: ;;later tell benkay I finally wrote the scammer article. http://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/everyones-a-scammer/
mircea_popescu: a ok
mircea_popescu: if a 3bn endowment is not serious you got problmz.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: No "serious" college is in a "serious" city
BingoBoingo: Columbia's "Occupy" group camped withing a football field or two of the City Football field
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: u. of md. is not in the boundaries of any serious city (city of college park is a very small and threadbare thing)
assbot: You Don't Need a Search Firm to Hire a President - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education
BingoBoingo: Dude can't take the nexy step https://chronicle.com/article/You-Dont-Need-a-Search-Firm/148525/
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but if you mail in, via postal pigeon, a cheque for 1mil, they'll probably take it.
mircea_popescu: i only ask after about a year or so of exceptional service.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if i'm the only person that will shitlist a company for that reason.
mircea_popescu: it stands in general, catch a cia guy, beat him up for a coupla days, he's going to spill it all.
gribble: Error: "laser" is not a valid command.
gribble: Error: "lazerkitten" is not a valid command.
gribble: Error: "laserkitten" is not a valid command.
BingoBoingo: It's a small step from a chuckle to a person choking on their own blood
artifexd: I don't think it is claiming "deep wisdom". It is an attempt at extracting a chuckle. Maybe a laugh. That's it.
artifexd: That's like being upset at a Michael Bay movie because the acting sucks.
BingoBoingo: Prolly around the time #Freenode is a channel on Bitcoin-Assets IRC
mircea_popescu: lol @reddit "it's okay to be a redditor with a website ; it's not okay to be a website with a reddit account"
kakobrekla: a minute
artifexd: Roughly how long is the delay between a block being broadcast and bitbet updating the feed with bets contained therein?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla is there a new bets rss ?
mircea_popescu: twitter is, in so many words, a pos.
mircea_popescu: mike_c he got a bank loc iirc.
nubbins`: The20YearIRCloud i ;;later told you a tracking number a couple days ago, did you receive it?
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tf | The Fuck. Most commonly used as a shortened WTF. However, TF is used in instances when WTF takes too long to be said. TF is also used in a more exc...
mircea_popescu: lol but i dun get it, what's the dick going to do to me ? not like i'm a woman.
nubbins`: mp, i've been thinking about this massive problem for a while now
mircea_popescu: http://www.reddit.com/r/Pareidolia/ << there's actually a cool reddit.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: specific excuse idem << this is more like the fabled pestholes where female dies of appendicitis unless a female appendectomist can be found, because 'modesty.'
ThickAsThieves: “I guess the markets aren’t seeing what I am seeing. An entire economy is being rebuilt. I have a price target of $10,000 in three years. Even that may be pessimistic.”
ThickAsThieves: a salesman is but a caricature
asciilifeform: there's not a single post where the 'parody horizon' isn't crossed or at least approached...
ThickAsThieves: "Want to become a billionaire? Then find a way to help a billion people."
pete_dushenski: but i must be going. cheers b-a!
asciilifeform: because suddenly, there is (or you think there is) a debate. with 'sides.' ☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: once you've been 'taught the controversy' - that is, convincing that there -even is- reasonable debate among informed people, on a particular subject - the lie becomes a kind of half-truth, automagically ☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gmo | 1. genetically modified orgasm. 2. to have a fake orgasm. "I just found out my girlfriend has been GMOing on me." "Jenna Jameson is the queen of GMOing.".
asciilifeform: it's precisely like calling bitcoin a 'crypto-currency', as if there were other similar apparatus worth mentioning, sitting on the shelf next to it.
pete_dushenski: so is calling a crossover vehicle a truck
assbot: Logged on 18-08-2014 16:08:14; asciilifeform: gmo foods << a term annoying as all hell. there are no 'gmo foods
asciilifeform: chap should get on with drowning honourably aboard a seastead or stfu...
pete_dushenski: yil: diamandis is an asteroid mining, spacexing, self-proclaimed "capitalist libertarians" who is a big believer in bitcoin and is going to be launching a bitcoin something soon
asciilifeform: 'Passionate about innovation and creating a world of Abundance.' << lol!
asciilifeform: 'A simple “no” in answer to questions regarding NSA involvement could end the controversy. The government’s failure to answer generates a presumption that either “no” would not be a candid response or the prosecutors do not know the answer.'
assbot: A Statue Of Satan With A Huge Erection Has Appeared In Vancouver For Some Reason
pete_dushenski: and weren't you all "i dunno about $conference because bun in oven?" a few months ago?
mircea_popescu: anyway, if you reject my bed of nails, here's a domestic black servant girl as a replacement. http://31.media.tumblr.com/6d2383b64bd6de9018e867b5aaf31633/tumblr_mxmms3ViO51s65rzwo2_250.gif http://31.media.tumblr.com/e2b0e7664e2e4d64c5a4d8352c9d0bfa/tumblr_mxmms3ViO51s65rzwo1_250.gif http://38.media.tumblr.com/4d6b7bd5912313cf6ceda23ca4a442de/tumblr_mxmms3ViO51s65rzwo3_250.gif http://38.media.tumblr.com/fac9f44da82f3a48
asciilifeform: guru gets up, leads n00b to a plank with a single very sharp nail.
cazalla: that image looks like a screencap from an insex video
asciilifeform: n00b goes to india to learn yoga (the -real- yoga, that lets you take a day's break from breathing and talk to the gods, in imagination of homo sovieticus)
asciilifeform: what a terrible chop job
mircea_popescu: back when i was a kid, you had to try and imagine what the inquisition looked like. nowadays, you just need to check out "porn" http://31.media.tumblr.com/101eab0b3b90b3fe81916c5e95ea962a/tumblr_mr66avsy7w1s3rid7o1_1280.jpg
asciilifeform: most you can hope to own, in original sense of that word, is - your arse. and that's only if you abscond with it before someone finds a better use (e.g., biodiesel.)
ThickAsThieves: how can one troll without a troll house?!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform from what i know it actually is not, and seems to trigger a type of lung cancer in some people
asciilifeform: in any and all anglo-reich tendrils, a house is required to cost at least 2-3 years of the expected occupant's entire wage. break this rule, they break your neck.
ziggla: pretty sure there's a female pornstar named stoya