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mircea_popescu: yes, but
they you also hit
the provider with five figure bill for it.
mircea_popescu: each had a different story of sadness, and all
together
they could have made a small rocket. if only
their materials weren't allocated by idiots,
that is.
mircea_popescu: another one,
the
transformer went, evidently, wire
too
thin and melted
mircea_popescu: the last pair died in
the lulziest of ways : it's usb powered, and it will short
the usb when
the sound is loud enough, lose power,
then come back a half second later.
mircea_popescu: in
the same vein, i have now spent in excess of $300 buying no less
than nine "pc sound systems" over
the past 2 years. i have nfi why i decided
to just buy one of
the cheapo,
two speaker
things. and
then replace it and so on.
trinque: but yes, appears
to have accreted automake
trinque: heh, I'll not link
the shithub
mircea_popescu: the reason you are stuck with it is
that apparently
the soul resides in
the gall bladder.
mircea_popescu: the driver isn't "this is how we got
the perfect woman" ;
the driver is "and
this is how separating one of
these ugly argentine schmucks from her fambly and society goes"
mircea_popescu: graves do not speak, not by
themselves, not for
themselves.
mircea_popescu: for later, have a proper example of wehat
these metaphors mean.
mircea_popescu: dja know btw
there's an entire subculture living off
those ?
a111: Logged on 2017-01-03 13:50 Framedragger: (fwiw sandboxing efforts look nice and more
technically involved; question is how easy it'd be
to apply work done
there
to other browsers and so on; if not, meh)
mircea_popescu: that;s
the entire fucking point of socialism. "gotta keep
together".
mircea_popescu: all empire code must be <than x steps away from one common
trunk.
mircea_popescu: but
that's kinda
the point. avoid specificity of diddling
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the only good news on
that front is
that fees are consistently over 5% of
the block reward.
mircea_popescu: the fucking odds of
this ? bw.com and btc.com boundry, and it really doesn't look like
there's more
than 18 seconds delay. so btc.com checked
the block 446460 and built on it and found a block within ~15 seconds ?
mircea_popescu: "you have
to do
this sort of
thing!" "why ?" "because if you don't it might appear you don't exist" "but you do in fact not exist" "SHH!!!11"
mircea_popescu: because
they've never done
this before, about 12 or so
times since 1880 ; not
that it EVER fucking worked , nor
that
the "great powers"
that wanna be, and until
the last boot steps on
the last bureaucrat face will continue
to pretend
to be, are actually capable of learning or anything.
trinque: if we want
to get out
the real
tin foil for a minute, somebody might suspect
the "great powers" have been planning on how
to restructure
the middle east *together*
trinque: lulzy, so US-istan is unique in its scam and plunder campaign for a few paragraphs,
then "lets get
the rest of
the major powers
to all plunder saudi
together"
mircea_popescu: yes, russian policy in middle east is pretty much centered in squashing
the saudis.
mircea_popescu: actually --
to
try and convice him
to sign a statement beseaching all
the other
teachers never EVER
to
try.
mircea_popescu: wasting his money." quoth
the endearigly naive mr ballas. except
the counter
to
this is in disgrace,
the novel, of course : when a
teacher does finally, for incomprehensible reasons,
try,
the OTHER
TEACHERS assemble a panel
to
try and con
mircea_popescu: "The "college is a scam"
train is one on which I'm all aboard, but
that doesn't mean each individual professor has
to be scamming students;
there's no reason why he can't do a good job and
teach his students something
that
they aren't going
to get simply by reading
the
text. If a student can skip class and still ace
the class,
the kid is either very bright or
the professor is utterly useless. Right? Either way,
the kid's
shinohai: ah mircea_popescu you refering
to scotcoin or whatever it is
adlai: trinque:
took me a moment but i lol'd
mircea_popescu: fucking idiots, "oh, in
this very narrow sliver of experience
that is our irrelevant if self-important life, x observation held so far, especially because he have no fucking clue as
to statistics, logic, or anything else.
THEREFORE IT IS A NATURAL LAW OF
THE UNYVERSE!!!"
mircea_popescu: talk sensibly
trinque ; gnuzip is made by foss, it has had millions of eyes on it. all bugs are shallow!
trinque: adlai: what is
this, a gunzip exploit or something?
adlai: mircea_popescu: nah, back in middle school mrs whatsit
told me not
to forget
those because
they help
to end e sentence, yet mene hesn't even begen yet!
adlai: happy integer fiats since genesis, o chanl of
the schemer's
truth
mircea_popescu: it's not a strategy for anything
than for
the pernicious insanity of "marketing matters".
Framedragger: some airlines (such as ryanair)
try
to stuff
the user with
tons of shitty offers before reservation confirmation page. horribru UX. such m0netizzation $trategy. imbeciles indeed :/
mircea_popescu: the moment
they start with "not like bots" you know
they're imbeciles.
Framedragger: this one
time, i was scriptifying cheap flight booking. was amazed how less-laggy
the simulated/automated 'browsing experience' (website didn't like bots, needed
to convince it by running part of actual browser) was (cf. manual clicking on airline's website). got depressed
Framedragger: i suppose you also avoid
the 'why does a multibillion clock machine lag on key press omfg' fail as icing on
the cake.
mircea_popescu: i dunno how cool it is, but let me
tell you it is very productive