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mircea_popescu: you're not required to communicate via phone are you ?
mircea_popescu: best way to lose an eye is shoot shotguns at armored targets.
mircea_popescu: you basing yourself on the theory usg->judge will != usg->da ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo but the usg (through usg->da) has already evaluated that
mircea_popescu: "The average tip amount across all platforms is has fallen to ~$0.91, while the average tip amount on reddit is only ~$0.37… we can do better!"
mircea_popescu: how exactly is this strat supposed to go : i couldn't make the "preponderence of evidence" standard but i'll make the "absolute proof" ?
mircea_popescu: and preserved deliberately - to fuck up... well, basically, him.
mircea_popescu: someone needs to tell him this civil-criminal thing is as close as it gets to double jeopardy in the us
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it occurs to me, that shavers character is like out of a novel. first he gets a civil supoena that he doens't ignore. then he self represents. and doesn't do homework. then he loses the suit. civil suit. he loses it. then he pleads not guilty in criminal proceedings.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, hunting from flight already soundly illegal.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform similar phenomenon with virgin slavegirls.
mircea_popescu: (this perhaps easily conglimerated with veblen - but is not same.
mircea_popescu: there's a very proper top. there's a good reason to pay 850k
mircea_popescu: there's a very proper middle, there's good reason to pay 80 rather than 15.
mircea_popescu: i broadly agree, but imo veblen-ness behaves strangely, as in : window. from about 100 to maybe 5 or 10k a bottle.
mircea_popescu: romania has (had ?) some exceptional wines at 5-10 dollars a bottle.
mircea_popescu: so wiat, is your thesis that this doesn't exist ? or what ?
mircea_popescu: i'm not going to go as far as to say "date a french somellier chick that can actually tell you what you ate after you squirt her palate"
mircea_popescu: there's no way they don't have that shit in dc, with all the dumb money floating about. take the girl out for a wine tasting show once
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know this is something that you could pleasantly research ?
mircea_popescu: "apitoxin" is you know, one of those vinegars peterl analysed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform depends on the wasp, but not very well known really.
mircea_popescu: europe is particularly mild on this shit. you get stung by the tiny polen wasps that live ther,e it's like... mk.
mircea_popescu: (so is scorpion, for that matter. most don't kill or anything)
mircea_popescu: nubbins`> i've never been bitten by anything more exotic than fire ants << for one thing fire ants are more exotic than vipers in carpathians. for the other, i would bet a lot more painful. poor snake's drastically overhyped
mircea_popescu: this is about as sustainable as a tower of liquid piss in the shape of roosevelt's wheelchair.
mircea_popescu: plus drugs. hours out of the lives of a dozen + people, all supposedly skilled.
mircea_popescu: notice that the idiots in question cost an emergency call, an er visit plus an emt visit later
mircea_popescu: "i'll lick out his asshole but fuck take that bug away from me"
mircea_popescu got bit by viper, chick in group sucked it out the next moment, me was fine.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that reddit is the most retarded shit i ever read.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` hey, changing the world right ? like that chick changing they into whey or w/e
mircea_popescu: dawg... you wanna see comedy look through the foudnation voting thing. what justification ?
mircea_popescu: ie, most infrastructure nodes i know of work on SOME SORT ofload balancing or othewr, necessarily thus exposing variable ips to the world etc.
mircea_popescu: mike_c the notion of "counting nodes" is bizarre in the first place.
mircea_popescu: and amusingly they think it's some pop rock of the 70s.
mircea_popescu: they change the words. but the song fprever the same. no matter what happens. this is the song.
mircea_popescu: yeah, the competition is called "mp said the nodes are the weakest point of bitcoin, bitcoin ppls are fixing it"
mircea_popescu: they all sing the same song. they all sing the SAME SONG
mircea_popescu: ets Mar 21 19:48:59 *KatelynT (~KatelynT4@c-73-218-118-55.hsd1.ma.comcast.net) has joined #bitcoin-assets Mar 22 16:33:52 *fhiejeurjjurru (~androirc@c-73-218-118-55.hsd1.ma.comcast.net) has joined #bitcoin-assets Mar 25 21:00:53 *jfdjdjdjdjrejeii (~androirc@c-73-218-118-55.hsd1.ma.comcast.net) has joined #bitcoin-assets
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mircea_popescu: correlation of pseudorandom variables is a wonderfuil thing
mircea_popescu: mp lights cigarette, cab turns in immediately, mp is revered as god by the kid in question.)
mircea_popescu: (me last year, waiting for cab with dude in timisoara. cab kinda late. me : "check it out, i'ma light a cigarette and by the magical magic of smoking, it'll show up immediately.
mircea_popescu: i think you may have a genetic explanation of intelligence there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but there isn't a box in the windoze to input that purpose.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform recall the ancient discussion re "what if nsa held a bunch of btc" ?
mircea_popescu: there's no lever to toggle from enemy to friend or w/e.
mircea_popescu: the only option agents have is whether to exist or not exist.
mircea_popescu: there literally is no enemy. there can't be. bitcoin is agnostic in this sense.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> did you solve the clock, does it need time sync at all? << REAL CLOCKS KEEP THEIR OWN TIME!
mircea_popescu: that's a completely sufficient solution here, lettuce move on.
mircea_popescu: just forget it, srsly. seed list can live on hdd with blockchain if the notion of hardcoded magic ip numbers makes you retch