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decimation: someone standing on the shore today sees only
a ripple where that vortex will one day consume everything
BingoBoingo: I've spent anywhere from 30 minutes to
a day and
a half depending on the post.
BingoBoingo: decimation: Still, the container has
a standard form. Toilets can have different looks, but are recognizable as toilets.
decimation: you see
a book is
a container that holds words that you vomit
BingoBoingo: decimation: That doesn't explain his ignorance of how to structure
a document he is going to try to label
a "book"
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> if you can actually read trilema you're above about
a third of native speakers. << You know on this point alone if Silicon Valley really cared about BTC they'd be wining and dinign me by nao
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell TimSwanson I don't have to be
a Bitcoin Taliban to understand how it works << Actually the model is more like ISIS
BingoBoingo: ;;later tellTimSwanson I don't have to be
a Bitcoin Taliban to understand how it works << Actually the model is more like ISIS
BingoBoingo: As far as the teaching Assistant part of being
a grad student goes going from freshman logic to babysitting pharm students was
a godsend. The latter FEARED the material they were studying.
BingoBoingo: When I tried philosophy grad school everyone got in pissing matches over who read Whitehead or Russel, but how many other gave
a shot at their Principia they did together? 0
mircea_popescu: it was taught just about
a thousand years ago in teh monasteries.
BingoBoingo: But how else does one do geometry of
a medium more portable than
a chalkboard?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> this is how one comprehends
a text. << Rarely taught in US. Surprised classmates when in Spinoza class I told them my secret weapon was posterboard for mapping things to other things.
BingoBoingo: Basically for
a Trilema I map the grammer and then dictionary the words
mircea_popescu: if you can actually read trilema you're above about
a third of native speakers.
mike_c: kakobrekla doesn't have
a single negative rating. what
a nice guy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what if one of these days you'll unwrap
a gift to find
a weird egg or somesuch
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Nah, this Tim Swanson is totally an environmental derp, but English is
a sloppy language.
BingoBoingo: TimSwanson: You said I was
a "environmental scholar" << You are whether you admit it or not.
BingoBoingo: Missouri has
a lot of Karst geology as well. Most pictures of "Nature" in Romania remind me of the Ozarks
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes welcome to the empire of good design, where most customer requests get
a "no need for new code, you're doing it wrong" from management.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform, mike_c, mircea_popescu: seems like there's some demand for an ad slot that's invisible unless paid for with
a venue-specified minimum bid per day.
BingoBoingo: peterl: "Toolbox" is
a decent blank slate to shape to your whims
BingoBoingo: peterl: Just
a suggestion, you don't have to follow it, but make your own WP theme, keeps shit simpler
leochilll: just
a bitcoin fan sick of the propaganda!
mircea_popescu: let the permanent record permanently reflect the permanent fact that the economist is
a piece of toilet paper upon which down syndrome patients scribble whatever shit happens through their head.
mircea_popescu: this is roughly the equivalent of scrapping seo blogs to get the average revenue of
a seo expert.
mircea_popescu: "THE ECONOMIST has analysed 190,000 profiles of female sex workers on websites where customers post reviews. The data cover 84 cities in 12 countries, with the biggest number of workers in America and most of the rest in big cities in rich countries. According to our analysis, the price of an hour of sex with
a female prostitute has been dropping fairly steadily in recent years. In 2006 the average cost was around $340
mircea_popescu:
a) the idiots in san francisco were whining
a month ago about how $10/sq foot is "outside of what
a "normal" business can pay in rent"
mircea_popescu: course some older readers may recall the phuctor and it's quiet quietness. not everything is
a they.
mircea_popescu: pankkake: that's how you spot
a tiny penis <<lol maybe you're just mean.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: presently you can do
a kind of basic 'iq filter' just by, e.g. ignoring anything whatsoever distributed as an ms-word turd << ya think ?! :D
assbot: Loper OS » Bitcoin, or How to Hammer in Nails with
a Microscope.
mircea_popescu: about on the degree of the distinction between going for
a play and going to the doctor.
mircea_popescu: for the admittedly slanted view from my tower however, i can definitely say that i would trade
a billion visitors from twitter for
a thousand visitors fro whatever,
assbot: Loper OS » On the fact that Bitcoin has
a Kill Switch; and how to disconnect it.
mircea_popescu: so my rationale is, make
a place which actually only lists legitimate venues, people won't have the problem i had anymore.
mircea_popescu: and the thought in my head was "i'd buy the whole book, if i had
a guarantee your book is all respectable folk, no mfa, no shit. no torrents w/e"
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> to get back to fucking, ever left money on the nightstand of
a woman that ~wasn't~
a whore ? << SUre, I wanted cigarettes when I came to
mircea_popescu: to get back to fucking, ever left money on the nightstand of
a woman that ~wasn't~
a whore ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c gotta appreciate trilema runs
a custom string of hacks off 6 yo wp
mike_c: amazingly? perhaps for
a php dev. seems easy.
mike_c: including
a trilema ad slot could increase the supply in general and rise all boats.
mike_c: pulling out/pushing in implies
a closed system.
nubbins`: asciilifeform time for
a poll ;D
mircea_popescu: mike_c it's more like, van is
a piggy bank. if i start pulling money out rather than pushing money in it'll prolly debalance it.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: you're probably already smoking it. you need to have
a valuable audience. << the proposition that tardstalk has
a valuable audience is outrageous.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Any other year situation would be similar here with power, but having
a "temperate" year
nubbins`: i generally try not to brag about this around people who earn
a living as "graphic designers"
nubbins`: i did
a run of silkscreened posters yesterday and the client saw the design for the first time when he exchanged
a wad of cash for them
nubbins`: i'm in
a rather enviable position, in that half the people i do work for just give me full artistic liberty
mircea_popescu: i have three holes in my wall about ten square inches total, wind blows through freely. i burned > 100kwh this month so far. they dun give
a shit. thsi is normal here.
BingoBoingo: If it was
a frog that big, its legs would have been fired. Toad... not so much.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Nah, the thing I posted today is
a toad, has warts
mircea_popescu: you're supposed to call me
a religious leader and complain of ad hominem
nubbins`: someone says "yeah i'm
a graphic designer", i get my list ready and ask them what their full name is
nubbins`: the more i work, the more i feel like the word "design" is
a poor descriptor for what i do
pete_dushenski: sort of
a mystical beast, unknown anywhere but the most remote jungles of south asia
mike_c: penguirker will find it. it's the b-
a library of congress
nubbins`: mike_c paste
a link to the pdf when you're done, yes?
mircea_popescu: more of
a culture sort of thing than
a business sort of thing.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> mircea_popescu:mike_c hey, how about
a bitcoin mud platform ? << zork for bitcoin? the grue ate your coin? << more like
a platform, so people can make their own muds but have some basic tools (btc payments, [blockchain based] random dungeon generator etc)
pete_dushenski: fairmont or whatever, they have no idea how to make you feel like
a king. they're too educated, too "i'm equal"
nubbins`: you're just as likely to get robbed by
a local who doesn't understand that he's shooting himself in the wallet
nubbins`: you visit
a picturesque small town to spend your money and have
a good time and maybe bring friends with you next time
chetty: AdrianoOliveira, its
a good place to hang around and read and learn
BingoBoingo: Is there
a link back to there we could follow?
AdrianoOliveira: pete_dushenski: I follow
a link posted on
a comment in one of the topics at bitcointalk