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mircea_popescu:
a corp trying to get one has prolly spend north of 10k just deciding whether it should be painted green or red.
mircea_popescu: that's what
a 20 reel pick-n-placer costs stan's mom&pop picknplace emporioum
mircea_popescu: for that matter, what's that 20btc buy you, alternatively ? 1/85th of
a second of superbowl commercial ?
mircea_popescu: you have any idea what
a key refresh costs
a serious entreprise ?
mircea_popescu: i mean i guess you could technically not use old acct as
a ref but why would you.
mike_c: if we wanted such
a process, which afaik nobody does.
mike_c: b-
a peer review process: put an ID on each blog entry in blogs.b-
a. if you have voice you can !rate
a blog post. then bash-like page with best rated posts, etc.
rithm: let's start
a peer review ring
mircea_popescu: waiting for the 8,5 million articles retraction by 1-2k "social sciences" publications due to
a 50k strong peer fraud ring.
pankkake: as
a scientist you have to be published by those things. and be cited
pankkake: they are
a good example of "rent-seeking"
mircea_popescu: Investigators took Tichelman's fingerprints from the wine glass, according to KGO-TV. An obituary posted in the Santa Cruz Sentinel describes Hayes as
a husband and father to five children.
mircea_popescu: pankkake isn't calling it
a "ding dong" the lulziest thing ever ?
assbot: Australian judge says incest may no longer be
a taboo - Telegraph
pankkake: however, for raids with
a lot of storage, drives failing all at once is more common than you would think
pankkake: while you're rebuilding, you are in
a vulnerable state. hence the "fail half at once" has
a higher chance to occur than you would think
mircea_popescu: (this actually happened
a number of times, most recently about 3 days ago. i even said so, at the time)
pankkake: I mean the time to obtain
a hard drive if you don't have
a spare (and the time to rebuild)
pankkake: the thing is, "once" is actually
a long time, the time you can change the drive and rebuild
mircea_popescu: benkay no, i just had
a moment of drool at the thought someone somewhere is making me
a dollie :D
benkay: <mircea_popescu> <benkay> latin, ballroom, the classics, various kinds of combat << is this
a woman you're raising here ? // statistically likely
benkay: (and after all, there’s nothing wrong with changing keys once
a year anyway) // what, mpex gets to rotate keys, but nobody else gets to rotate the keys they use on mpex?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> incidentally, this is what
a 'clean' hit looks like. none of the nailgun nonsense. exec gets slightly more than his usual dose... << only works on stalin, and execs who actually do drugs.
mircea_popescu: <benkay> latin, ballroom, the classics, various kinds of combat << is this
a woman you're raising here ?
benkay: business partner's mother was in town recently, wanted to know what we'd pay for
a master's degree
HyperChetty: <mircea_popescu> at this rate being
a camwhore will be more respectable than being
a scientist within our lifetimes.// I thought it already was
mircea_popescu: at this rate being
a camwhore will be more respectable than being
a scientist within our lifetimes.
JorgePasada: mats_cd03 I like one and
a half, maybe two of those
HyperChetty: asciilifeform, change it
a few names and it would be perfectly up to date
JorgePasada: I saw something in
a headline or something
bitstein: "CoinSummit London is
a two day event connecting virtual currency entrepreneurs, angel and VC investors, hedge fund professionals and others" - so... the worst of the Bitcoin community
Mats_cd03: worth
a read - discusses missing material incl some soviet suitcase size weapons
HyperChetty: There’s that old joke in Washington: that the definition of
a camel is
a race-horse designed by
a Congressional committee.”
artifexd: In
a world without assbot, only the other bots can speak... (Read in the voice of Don LaFontaine)
mircea_popescu: decimation the solution obviously is, "make an ideology to which dissent is
a self limiting condition"
decimation: you make
a good point mircea, human sovereignty is always tragically limited
decimation: obviously this is an impossible task, and you are not in
a position to demand such
a thing from nature
mircea_popescu: decimation suppose i have
a slavegirl. am i sovereign over her or aren't i ?
decimation: yeah I don't see any way out of the problem other than having
a king/judge make subjective decisions backed up with the threat of violence
mircea_popescu: decimation moreover, the market is provedly awful at allocating silence. london was nothing but
a gray mist for most of modernity.
mircea_popescu: mike_c suppose you're in
a restaurant with
a chick you're trying to impress.
decimation: lol well there's
a certain level of tolerance required to have civilization
decimation: right, it's
a subjective problem negotiated between rational property owners
mircea_popescu: they may mean well and act honorably, but they're fucking peas in the field. no way to know enough to form
a meaningful opinion.
decimation:
a much more rational system would be this: your neighbor opens coal plant, pays you damages for blighting your skies, business is taken care of
mircea_popescu: n3 is
a small consumer with
a large gas plant. they picket it and it's closed. large industry down the road needs power so even further coal plant is brough back online.
mircea_popescu: neighbourhood 1 gets together to "do something for environment", blows up all the leaves with leafblowers. N2 pledges to stop eating beef so as to help reduce cowfart methane production. the importers normaly supplying them suffer
a shock,
a bunch of meat is discarded.
decimation: the same environmentalists would gladly shut down
a gas plant "because environment" and thus force the old coal plant to burn
decimation: I suspect if you tried to build
a new refinery to burn it more cleanly they would protest that too
mircea_popescu: “The reason we can export so much is demand in the U.S. is weak,” Cohan said. Since 2005, the U.S. has lost nearly 2 million barrels
a day of total product consumption, he said.
TheNewDeal: isn't there
a relatively large premium of brent vs wti lately/
TheNewDeal: could west texas intermediate be
a derivative of shale oil?
mircea_popescu: buncha people out singing. not like they burned
a car or anything.
benkay: it's just
a ruse to convince us that mp isn't an nsa plant
mircea_popescu: i've been mostly conferincing lol. gotta earn
a living.
mircea_popescu: mthreat just been for
a spin around 9 de julio. not *that* crazy
mircea_popescu: justusranvier i guess that's
a point, i should wipe trilema twitter links huh
mike_c: once
a year the mpex raid array goes on summer vacation.
nam-shub: New name, for
a new secret project
justusranvier: mircea_popescu: When did you stop having
a Twitter account?
mike_c: that's
a herp and
a derp.
mike_c: the real answer is worse: "
A quick poll during my keynote presentation at PyCon 2007 shows this proposal has no popular support. I therefore reject it."
assbot: PEP 3103 --
A Switch/Case Statement
assbot: Why isn't there
a switch or case statement in Python?
mircea_popescu: <benkay> how does slowing down bond purchases imply
a not increase in rates? << iwannabelieve.jpg
mircea_popescu: methinks im gonna go out in
a bit and check out teh nuttery.