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fluffypony: ho hum. if anyone's interested (since I'm having no luck on -otc) I need a US$ 5,109.83 amount paid via PayPal, willing to sort it out via BTC at ticker last less 5%

asciilifeform: 'a decade in the lab will save you an afternoon in the library.'

asciilifeform found out that the needle fitting on his apparatus is called a 'luer lock' and can be had commercially. one fewer item to grind on lathe, and we get out from 19th c. sooner.

asciilifeform: how did people imagine the dish were made - a chicken sentenced to death by 'ling-chi' ?

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if you're reading about verilog or similar, it helps to remember that a good portion of the language is only used during simulation experiments

atcbot: [X-BT] Bid: 175 Ask: 221 Last Price: 175 24h-Vol: 0k High: N/A Low: N/A VWAP: N/A

mircea_popescu: a wb empy. so

mircea_popescu: i wonder how long before they fit a hercules with a roboarm and start pulling these into the cargobay

mircea_popescu: "Earlier this week, NORAD also sent two F-16 fighter jets to respond to another unresponsive aircraft in the United States. This plane, which took off from an airport in Wisconsin on Monday, was bound for an airport in Manassas, Va., a community outside Washington. The plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, about 140 miles away from Washington."

asciilifeform: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/09/05/fighter-jets-are-escorting-a-plane-over-the-atlantic/?tid=trending_strip_1

BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: There's probably a better use for the phosphrous than direct conversion to food.

n6: we sent a public key last night but the web ui says unrecognized public key when we try to deposit, where did we go wrong we encypted to mircea_popescu's key listend on the faq.

BingoBoingo: So how long until S.Diesel is it still a few years off?

BingoBoingo: I mean this thing is roughly bicycle seat size. We can put on our bike as a placeholder for the alpha phase, right? http://www.staples.com/office/supplies/StaplesProductDisplay?storeId=10001&catalogIdentifier=2&partNumber=426957&langid=-1&cid=PS:GooglePLAs:426957&ci_src=17588969&ci_sku=426957&KPID=426957&kpid=426957&gclid=CLne2ZzMysACFSMLMgodBigAQg

asciilifeform: seems like he trolled the local authorities a little too well.

mircea_popescu: heroes of might and magic 6 actually has a tribute location.

mircea_popescu: it was mostly a derpy da trying to be all washington dc. "let's tack murder on obscenity too!"

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what italian film was it, where the director was charged with murder on account of a 'too realistic' stake scene? and had to bring in the still-alive actress, and demonstrate the magic trick - which involved a bike seat /

mircea_popescu: there isn't a point to get. "hello people of internet. things because things and also. because therefore. etcetera."

chetty: nah more like a seat doused in gas and needing a match for a key

BingoBoingo: Aquent_: It's a similar error to making a bicycle, releasing the alpha version and having a mandoline instead of a seat.

Aquent_: thats a bug innit - you exepct it on a version that only very well versed programmers can even compile

asciilifeform: 'A Chukcha applies for membership in the Union of Soviet Writers. He is asked what literature he is familiar with. "Have you read Pushkin?" "No." "Have you read Dostoevsky?" "No." "Can you read at all?" The Chukcha, offended, replies, "Chukcha not reader, Chukcha writer!"' ☟︎

mircea_popescu: yeah that's a point. lurk moar.

mircea_popescu: a bunch of idiot kids are going to magically become businessmen and threaten me. because whatever, it's the internet now. and stuff.

chetty: mircea_popescu, given the stuff you manage to recall, its a wonder you can cram your own name in there sometimes

gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=quent | quent. A gentlemanly way of saying cunt! Example Usage: "I kindly ask you to refrain from using my wife's ass in that impertinent manner, you quent!". by stumow ...

kakobrekla: sez right there, 'a quent'

asciilifeform: 'Dear Zelda, Hardly a day passes in which I don't receive an email, usually one that's widely distributed and from a more senior member of our community, using the pronoun 'myself' incorrectly. It's my own pet peeve, but I imagine our 5-Eyes partners questioning our reliability when they see our seniors making this basic mistake. Furthermore, my boss regularly misuses a relatively common word. It hangs in the ai

asciilifeform: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/disruptions-a-blogger-mocks-the-denizens-of-silicon-valley/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

asciilifeform: lol it definitely isn't kept in there. unless fits in a closet.

asciilifeform: 'NSA's multicultural workforce can be challenging for a supervisor, with separate rules for dealing with military, civilian, and contractor employees. As the Agency has moved to a 50-50 military/civilian mix, this challenge has only grown...'

mircea_popescu: if you run a zimbabwean currency, a loaf of bread will be a billion. what of it ?

mircea_popescu: but anyway, i fail to see the logic. so two herps with five bux to their name objhect to what exactly ? to big figures ? that's a consequence of the fed, not of anyone in the real economy.

BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The Slate article is retarded but the premise where an NFL owner would do something like start buzz that their team's name is racist to pressure the city for a new stadium isn't unbelieveable

mircea_popescu: give rakim a good job, i'll even return the nuke subs.

mircea_popescu: this is what i want for my birthday. a less stereotypical and discriminatory against young people and their intelligence/fresh knowledge nsa.

BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: "When speaking with a co-worker, act as if you are telling her something in confidence."

asciilifeform: 'Dear Zelda, (U) I'm new to the agency and I'm also a young employee (in my late 20s). I have noticed that the older managers/supervisors think that we don't have the skills/knowledge/potential to run this agency in the near future. I heard them saying that. They tend to stereotype/discriminate without knowing our intelligence and fresh knowledge. What can we do to make them think differently? Thanks, Younger Sk

assbot: Dan Snyder, stadium deal: If the Washington owner gets public money to build a new stadium, it’s time to shut down pro sports.

BingoBoingo: Redskins stuff comes full circle http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2014/09/dan_snyder_stadium_deal_if_the_washington_owner_gets_public_money_to_build.html << Endgame appears trading the name for a new stadium

asciilifeform: http://cryptome.org/2014/09/nsa-ask-zelda-14-0828.pdf << mega-lol. nsa printed its 'employee etiquette q&a' column.

punkman: I thought Sam was a chick all this while

mircea_popescu: "We will continue to make exceptions to the investing rules when a company is running out of money and about to die, but we think they are good and no one else wants to invest. We may make other exceptions, which uninvolved partners will approve on a case-by-case basis."

punkman: it's the people that raise the valuations after YC invests a paltry sum

asciilifeform: i.e., we get to pay to have a particular batch of losers expelled and de-startupped

asciilifeform: yc should retool as a 'protection' racket

mircea_popescu: incidentally, i'd buy a YC Swimwear Founder Babe 2015 Calendar

chetty: If a female robot takes your job would it get paid less than a male robot?

punkman: that's a lot of dust

mircea_popescu: There was a young girl of Batonger who diddled herself with a conger. When asked how it feels to be pleasured by eels she said, "Just like a man, only longer."

mircea_popescu: i always used truthiness as a sort of "beliveability"

mircea_popescu: "1) Truthiness is a truth that someone knows to be true with complete disregard for facts." << uh, that's nonsense. we already have words to describe this, and quite refinedly so.

mircea_popescu: this is more like... "let me tell you what i think about astrophysics. i think there's a painted cardboard box around the earth"

gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Truthinews | Jun 25, 2013 ... 2) Similarly, truthinews is when a news channel reports what citizens want to hear and claims it to be true with complete disregard for facts.

mircea_popescu: i get pissy at the various us media "bitcoin experts", but really... that's the whole model. their climatology experts are no better, their political/financial analysts are no better, it';s just what it is. pay a monkey in sandwiches to be on tv.

mircea_popescu: the risk with showing humanity a cheaper way to do anything is that it'll fucking do it.

mircea_popescu: radio died gracefully. tv however seems to die of a cocktail of venereal diseases.

mircea_popescu: fluffypony fucking hysterical. i was just reading teh romanian online press. their leads are epic, "our article x, read over 4k times!" "this poll yields a 85% result towards so and so". it's an online poll with a total of ~700 votes.

fluffypony: this is amazing: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/03/nude_celeb_leaked_photos_hack_cnn_tech_expert_thinks_4chan_is_a_person/

assbot: Another flight was diverted after passengers fought over a reclining seat - The Washington Post

punkman: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/09/02/another-flight-was-diverted-after-passengers-fought-over-a-reclining-seat/

BingoBoingo: TomServo: Also, maybe Toyota views witholding the Hilux from certain markets a for of arms control

BingoBoingo: TomServo: Well I'd speculate that in the US it is easy enough to sell disposable consumer motor vehicles, so durability may not be much of a selling point

TomServo: BingoBoingo: I wonder the same. If you have a theory, I'd love to hear it.

shazow: was invited here by a fellow named gabriel at some coffeeshop, so don't mind my idling otherwise

TheNewDeal: "oh don't worry, it's a minnesota welcome"

assbot: Dreadnoughtus: A New Dinosaur Discovery - YouTube

cazalla: blonde is a butterface but still this is good for bitcoin! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR-riTViDtQ

punkman: mircea_popescu: yeah I don't really follow his blog. but he's written a bunch on the topic

mircea_popescu: if i cast this wide a net i might as well import phantomcircuit.lib and email @internet

cazalla: mircea_popescu, not so much a blog but http://www.casinomeister.com/ is well trusted

mircea_popescu: FabianB most people haven't got the memo that slovenakia is not actually a german province anymoar.

mike_c: his buddy is also big into prop bets (and has a few more twitter followers) https://twitter.com/MagicAntonio

kakobrekla: a that noise generator.

mircea_popescu: "o i know, let's get all the disadvantages of skateboards, bikes and vans into a nice tight package. tight enough to keep all the advantages at bay"

gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ATV | An ATV also known as quad is a really cool 4-wheel bike that is all terrain (you can go everywhere with it, water, mud, snow, ice,etc). Lately it has been pimped a ...

kakobrekla: a tv?

mircea_popescu: who the fuck drives atvs. now that's a dumb bet.

mircea_popescu: to paraphrase a famous assbot saying, i've never been as handicapped by my ignorance as when i started a betting site.

mike_c: he has an audience, haven't checked for a blog.

mike_c: if you're looking for somebody smart i'd try to reach out to phil laak. he's a famous poker player who is really into prop bets and has a very smart/analytical mind.

mike_c: well, what are you looking for? somebody with a random blog that you could pay to write an article? or somebody important who will write about it if it interests them?

mircea_popescu: i wanted to have a few reputed voices look over the berkshire bet for their audience.

mike_c: gambling is a bit broad for a blog. you interested in sports, poker, other?

mircea_popescu: im shocked there's no trilema of gambling, seriously. considering the piles of interest and the shit on tap, minimal ability would prolly earn someoine a living with less work than a college degree requires.

mircea_popescu: um how is this a blog ?

mircea_popescu: hmm, any of the gamblers in attendance care to point me to a respected gambling blog ?

assbot: KnCMiner Announces $14 Million Series A Funding Round

jurov: http://www.coindesk.com/kncminer-series-a-funding-round/ another derp?

mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal a block has to ellapse between when bet is proposed and when it's accepted. for this reason the poster's counter bet would come out in a different weight from his zeroconf

kakobrekla: its a different address for different side

mircea_popescu: a it adds it all up ? and what, shows as inbound the most recent ?

mircea_popescu: such a broken question.

mike_c: hm, asicminer actually releases a product and stock price sinks?

nubbins`: next best thing i can do, the cat with a bunch of shit on top of her

mircea_popescu: so i'm reading up on the darien scheme. while i always suspected the scottish people to be by and large a bunch of useless louts more or less on par with romanians,

nubbins`: it was hard to take pictures of me hitting the edges and corners on things, as i don't yet have a selfie wand

nubbins`: chair was a bend-test, i don't keep other packages on the deck so i had to make do with what was around 8)

mircea_popescu: why is it under a chair in the sun ? what is this, the waldo package ?