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mircea_popescu: us had inflation over 10% a year (not counting moimentary flareups of 1000% APY for a day or w/e) almost each decade.
mircea_popescu: look into volcker, the problem he addressed, how he addressed it etc.
mircea_popescu: junseth " The US has kept inflation down to around 3-4% for the most part since the beginning of central banking in the US." << you know that is atrociously untrue.
mircea_popescu: "Tasmanian poppies are highly toxic if ingested. They are uniquely different to standard poppies and have been developed to produce chemicals suitable for industrial processing only." << check out the proper use of ge huh.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the lseek error seems perhaps reminiscent of the fat problems ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you will notice the "eh why" point never actually came up ? somewhat to my surprise honestly.
mircea_popescu: mats someone who is not you could have bought a shitton of seeds, ground them finely, poured straight vinegar on the whole mess, let it sit for a while, then wash it all out and enjoy.
mircea_popescu: they want the latex, which means that pod won't produce.
mircea_popescu: they put it in cozonac instead of proper black wallnut paste, it's appalling.
mircea_popescu: at least, it was in a bunch of traditional romanian pastries i never cared for.
mircea_popescu: afaik the paste (very finely ground seeds with butter) is widely used as a filling
mircea_popescu gets flashbacks of alf dissatisfied with heroin on market, starting work on own poppies.
mircea_popescu: (btw, i'd have figured you bought a hardcopy of tbofh)
mircea_popescu: and that this arrangement came to a halt recently, when some arkansas derps bought it, and are republishing a widely bowdlerized version.
mircea_popescu: it seems : that the original author pulled a deepthroat, that the original publisher owned the rights to it
mircea_popescu: btw re anarchist cookbook thing, it seems there's a bit of americana in there.
mircea_popescu: speaking of skin cancer : did you know that mohs for melanoma works or doesn't work entirely depending on whoever does it ?
mircea_popescu: easily the most commented on post of that "someone in the blogosphere"'s.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo amusingly, i can't negrate it because i don't have enough javascript.
mircea_popescu: from the "let's make something stupid and call it our own" department, today the unconnected tap.
mircea_popescu: "ShapeShift was built as a demonstration of this principle: exchanges occur without custodianship of user funds. Indeed, there are no user accounts whatsoever."
mircea_popescu: anyway. i guess coinapult died ? i seem to recall a seed round about that one.
mircea_popescu: jurov: "creator of SatoshiDICE" my ass. << that claim's interesting. i guess double jeopardy brings out the best in people ?
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> He bought SatoshiDice and retained the creator for some time, yes? << an' settled with the sec, to boot.
mircea_popescu: in fairness this was prolly assembled in canada out of vietnamese parts or some shit. "american" what's that.
mircea_popescu: look a tthat. that's almost like a modern block's worth altogether.
mircea_popescu: the only time i trusted a us pos i had a break plate of a ford explode. just like that.
mircea_popescu: even if your version control is strictly "X -> Y -> Z" which are all control points
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform eventually that list jurov keeps will become unusable as a flat thing, you are aware.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform only whores masquerading as programmers.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> nobody's collaborating on anything man << this is like the first time ever people are seriously using a noncollaborative approach to coding.
mircea_popescu: trinque honestly im just waiting for them to get buried in more pizza packaging first.
mircea_popescu: During the conversation, the UC stated, "We read chemistry books with breakfast. Like, who does that?" VELENTZAS responded, "People who want to make history."
mircea_popescu: wever, it is always to be avoided to use numbers as instructions. Since an instruction word is indistinguishable from a number word, some means must be provided to avoid using numbers as instructions. How this is accomplished is described under "BUILDING A PROGRAM". Also, how we convert from a 2000 to the binary representation shown is discussed later."
mircea_popescu: "The computer has no way of knowing by examining the word itself, whether a word is intended as a number or an instruction. Under most circumstances it is the numbers which are operated on and the instructions which are followed as instruction. The LGP-30 has the ability to operate on instructions as numbers. This ability is not only valuable but a feature which makes for the great power of stored program computers. Ho
mircea_popescu: punkman the best way to test that sort of thing is on a local testnet with low diff.
mircea_popescu: well i can be faulted all anyone wants, but guyess what!
mircea_popescu: and then he wrote it all breathlessly and didn't bother to proofread before submitting.
mircea_popescu: as opposed to, whole thing occured to him this morning as he was sitting on shitter and contemplating what a laughingstock he is
mircea_popescu: nubbins` funny thing is, ego and intelligence are unrelated variables at birth. plenty of people roll 6-1.
mircea_popescu: there must be some eeprom in the bios that i don't know about.