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usagi: Even with a female lawyer
usagi: A lot of this is really beside the point. We're ignoring the fact that women could have incorporated a company with a willing lawyer
chetty: my mother was a judge
usagi: Not havign a job or an education or a husband?
chetty: well all your evidence didnt let my mother buy a house, her fathers signature did
usagi: I have a pretty good feeling that the general case of women being denied is because they would present a credit risk
usagi: The other factor is that humans have a very long written history.
usagi: That's a little too convenient, comaining that history has been rewritten
usagi: In 1783 they had a female president.
chetty: rewriting history is a popular occupation these days
usagi: I've been taking a look at a few internet lists of things women couldn't do in year x, y or z.. there is a lot of bs
usagi: If I can sell eggs to a woman, take her money to cut her hair, take her bank deposit, why wouldn't I want to loan her money?
usagi: Credit card companies are private corporations. Why would they refuse to issue an unmarried woman a credit card?
chetty: there were a lot of inequities, but I still hate femnazi as practiced today
usagi: Dunno, I'm sure there was prejudice, but as they say, capital has a will of it's own, banks wouldn't refuse someone who had stable income
usagi: A bank would normally refuse a woman a credit card for example, because it was so unlikely for her to be able to pay it back
usagi: Meh that's bs.. there's a lot of bs floating around about womens rightgs
chetty: before the 60s a woman couldnt even have her own credit, married or not
usagi: Where I work every year someone quits because they're having a child, and they never come back
usagi: Career women don't raise kids, so you see a much lower birthrate.
chetty: <usagi> Reversion to the mean... re: married women and rights, it's a deep and complex social issue/nah its easy, get rid of marriage, get the state out of it
usagi: Reversion to the mean... re: married women and rights, it's a deep and complex social issue
thestringpuller: pankkake: i've been using Coinbase to gamble on bitbet for a year now
RagnarDanneskjol: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/08/22/1927472/plus500-as-a-model-citizen/
BingoBoingo: Ideally similar uber transparent p2pool thing with a basic stats web page, just a lot like Coinminer but not shitty.
X-Rob: Yeah. I'll set up a proper pool this weekend
BingoBoingo: X-Rob: A pool that can take hashpower more stably than that coinminer thing
BingoBoingo: Well X-Rob was talking about something. May just be the sort of situation where a person just has to get their hands dirty
RagnarDanneskjol: never tried to do a normal coin pool
RagnarDanneskjol: also used this one before - kind of a neat model: https://nicehash.com/
BingoBoingo: RagnarDanneskjol: Well since this inquiry was about getting a cheap pool and their sales pitch was for us to buy and ship them a metric fuckton of mining equiptment... Prolly just watch them until they collapse on their own
BingoBoingo: fluffypony You ever set up a mining pool before?
fluffypony: I have a haircut at 12:30 and I feel like oysters for lunch
RagnarDanneskjol: (A Censorship-Resistant, Privacy-Enhancing and Fully Decentralized Name System) - Gnu Name System
assbot: A Tiny RSA Cryptosystem based on Arduino Microcontroller Useful for Small Scale Networks
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell princessnell please to note: "Online news has an even worse impact. In a 2001 study two scholars in Canada showed that comprehension declines as the number of hyperlinks in a document increases."
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: mkay. so in th forest there lived this very horny, huge schlong bear. sort of like one eye pete of the beardom. << with all the petes littering b-a these days, i don't even know if i'm the one who gets to blush at this
gribble: Modern Prison History - Drtomoconnor.com: <http://www.drtomoconnor.com/1050/1050lect01a.htm>; The Rotating Prison in the Mountain - story cylinder allegory ...: <http://ask.metafilter.com/78414/The-Rotating-Prison-in-the-Mountain>; Greatest Mathematicians born between 1700 and 1800 A.D.: <http://fabpedigree.com/james/grmatm4.htm>
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform:jailer turned the entire building on a pivot - with hand crank. << whoa
mircea_popescu: i'm making no value judgement here, merely using an example to illuminate a point.
gribble: Error: "isitup" is not a valid command.
pete_dushenski: so this church dood is a piece o work eh
BingoBoingo: It didn't come from a typical muppet
assbot: A Bitcoin Backbone | The Bitcoin Foundation
BingoBoingo: Incredibly lulzy https://bitcoinfoundation.org/2014/08/a-bitcoin-backbone/
ben_vulpes: only a) it has robust tribes orbiting and b) lovely babes
asciilifeform: if you admitted to reading a patent, and then lose infringement suit, plaintiff gets triple damages
decimation: in engineering school we had a patent lawyer speak about his profession. He said he had to explain to a jury the concept of imaginary numbers, using colored pieces of posterboard
decimation: "DEA acknowledges that not all of the designer drugs seized in the effort are listed on Schedule I. But the agency says prosecutors will rely on a federal law that allows these nonlisted compounds to be treated like a controlled substance if they are proven in court to be chemically or pharmacologically similar to a Schedule I drug." LoL as if a jury knows
peterl: gave me a great idea of a synthetic project, to optimize the synthesis, but I don't think my boss would like the target
peterl: no, a less traditional synthesis, from benzyl bromide, methylamine and acetaldehyde ☟︎
decimation: apparently there's a group called Ju-air that maintains the thing, I'm sure for golden toliet prices they will also paint like hitler's plane http://www.ruudleeuw.com/dubendorf09.htm
decimation: sorry I mean a junkers Ju52
decimation: yeah you would face a pretty good chance of death
kakobrekla: a yea messerschmitt, i have flown that.
asciilifeform: b2h6 is a beauty. reacts with pretty much everything, including fluorocarbon extinguisher agents, e.g. halon.
asciilifeform: 'the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.' << famous
decimation: here's an older review in a similar vein: http://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2012-04/001367.html " in the quest for “exotic fuel” (which the author defines as “It's expensive, it's got boron in it, and it probably doesn't work.”), "
decimation: herr walker has a book review on boronated fuels http://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2014-03/001499.html
asciilifeform: 'The smell of diborane is known to a few experimenters, but they cannot tell us what it is.' ☟︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> someone affiliated with those who attend burning man regularly. << sluts make a much better tribe imo.
decimation: in other words: whatever some white man thought is racsis, he doesn't get a say
ben_vulpes: ""Tribe" is a contested term due to its roots in colonialism."
asciilifeform doesn't understand why words must be stretched until they snap. 'tribe' has a well-understood meaning
nubbins`: they're a tribe at band camp
ben_vulpes: what's a tribe in the first place?
asciilifeform: what's a tribe next? chess?
ben_vulpes: 'burner' isn't a bad tribe. needs filtering, but all do anyways.
asciilifeform: mr mold once wrote, if i recall, that his greatest wish is that he were a mormon or moslem
decimation: asciilifeform: you have spoken about the benefits of having a 'tribe' in the past
decimation: http://www.isegoria.net/2014/08/public-health-benefits-of-culture/ "one could conclude that a mass conversion to Mormonism would reduce social problems more effectively than all welfare spending, academic research, and public health initiatives in the last fifty years."
decimation: such a long way the british have fallen
decimation: http://www.isegoria.net/2014/08/read-them-the-riot-act/ "If the group failed to disperse within one hour, then anyone remaining gathered was guilty of a felony without benefit of clergy, punishable by death."
decimation: re: engineering thinking < taleb makes this point, if you want to learn about reality, ask someone who has tried to get things done, not someone who is a bureaucrat
decimation: http://www.ips.gov.au/Educational/1/3/5 here's a page with a graph that shows attenuation in different frequency bands
asciilifeform: jailer turned the entire building on a pivot - with hand crank.
ben_vulpes: i point out a) those ratings are for highway operation, b) those ratings are so that joe sixpack can haul his 12klb boat up a 30deg ramp c) that generally the operating envelope is entirely different
ben_vulpes: this is closely related to a conversation i had today in which someone tried to argue without proof that a toyota tundra with its 10klb rating could *never NEVER* pull the US orbiter
mircea_popescu: current guys are very tightly oppressed by budgets and there's this overwhelming delusion that "we know shit" making a lot of garbage numbers be accepted .
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: older engineers really thought through a lot a lot of potential orbital problems - doesn't really surprise me.
asciilifeform: van allen belt, incidentally, is what becomes the 'dynamo' for a nuke's emp burst.
ben_vulpes: so a big one will not just wipe out lots of networks, but also totally fuck a lot of orbital planning.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes but yes, as far as numerically approached, a major flare can do 500km.
The20YearIRCloud: takes a pretty good hit from a flare to cause significant problems
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's also a third, very annoying van allen belt (!) that pops up during flares.
decimation: the worst effect of a solar flare is the massive plasma cloud that the sun farts when it happens. if it hits the earth just right, it sets up massive moving magnetic fields which generate large currents in long conductors
asciilifeform: homophone malapropisms are a kind of leper's bell for people who learned english (or whichever language) by hearing, and are innocent of books
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes atmosphere is mostly constrained by gravity, which makes the heat a major factor. if you heat it it expands.
mircea_popescu: i mean, i don't think i yet published an article without a typo or two in it, sure. but there's a difference.
asciilifeform recently walked past a marble wall, thanking various donors to xxx that 'insured a bright future for this establishment'
asciilifeform: decimation: it was a toy. somewhere north of 100 usd, i think
mircea_popescu: generally the masses in the democracy tend to get it nice and hard. which seems fair, if only in a very cold, distant, macro sense.
mircea_popescu: what do you mean making some bases which you then close is on the whole a net negative, putting the place worse off than it would have been had you minded your own business!
mircea_popescu: Instead I got busy working 100-hour workweeks. Then came the L.A. depression of the early 1990s. Our leaders decided that they didn’t need the all of those extra Air Force bases they had in Southern California, so they were closed; just like that. The result was economic devastation in the region that rivaled the widely publicized Texas S&L fiasco. However, because the government caused it, no one gave a shit about a
asciilifeform inherited the little book from a job as student, where he had approximately the same relationship to ion engines as a farting cow has to the 'greenhouse effect'
asciilifeform: it's a fscking commercial product
mircea_popescu: but now... it's all better. so i guess in a few more decades only northeners will be fit to go on space missions
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nobody wants to say this, for some reason << what? this is a schoolbook fact
mircea_popescu: * asciilifeform wonders if this could even be carried out mechanically, with something like a wirbelrohr. << you'd need a good ion engine, actually.
decimation: asciilifeform: the trouble is that you would have to increase surface area, and therefore drag, to operate such a collector