mircea_popescu: "The city fell like a plane without an engine," said a Mosul businessman << what's with these people and planes.

mircea_popescu: benkay it's the sort of desert where a car doing less than 50 is a death trap.

mircea_popescu: cars where camels go, a bunch of redditards trying to pretend like they're playing WoW irl.

mircea_popescu: This i don't fucking understand. if you're trying to leave mosul and there's some fuckwits holding a "checkpoint" in your way

mircea_popescu: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/6/10/1402409110353/Iraqis-fleeing-Mosul-011.jpg << People fleeing the violence queue at a checkpoint near Mosul.

mircea_popescu: Iraq's embattled government said it would arm civilians and ask the parliament to declare a state of emergency. << this is a splendid point in case. the us-allied iraq government is going to... arm the civillians.

mircea_popescu: we've had flight for a centuryby now

mircea_popescu: it'll work, too. mexico has a better chance of ruling the us than either democrat or republican party in ten years.

mircea_popescu: also a doomed hope. the cartels will sooner or later make continued oil exports dependent on continued opium imports

mircea_popescu: canada is a given, 52nd state, after uk

mircea_popescu: i can't image a us policy of easy money not including easy reserves.

mircea_popescu: russia is emerging as a major ally of the muslims, and its strategy to energetically isolate the west is starting to take shape.

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla that's not a good link, that's a bead link.

mircea_popescu: i once broke into a network with the root-leaf combo

mircea_popescu: someone'll prolly write a blockbuster in a little

mircea_popescu: decimation: the burea-tard who signed Obama's birth certificate died in a plane crash (survived the crash but "had irregular heart beat" after 60 minutes in the water) <<< that took a while.

mircea_popescu: a sort of gui log reader

mircea_popescu: they even had a special doohickey made so they could add it in the menus

mircea_popescu: "The earliest types of EDA routers were "manual routers" -- the drafter clicked a mouse on the endpoint of each line segment of each net. Modern PCB design software typically provides "interactive routers" -- the drafter selects a pad and clicks a few places to give the EDA tool an idea of where to go, and the EDA tool tries to place wires as close to that path as possible without violating DRC." << my naive bias thing

mircea_popescu: suppose one day there's a panic, which takes one offline but not the other, which now dows 500 btc

mircea_popescu: suppose each does 10 btc a day on average.

mircea_popescu: pankkake unless one exchange is offline for a little bit.

mircea_popescu: (ie, someone who's not won loses nothing by making a spurious claim he has. this then taxes mod time, and the more complex the claim the better for the claimant)

mircea_popescu: the problem with this, of course, is that it gives a monetary incentive to make comments, at which point the result will be a flood of nonsense

mircea_popescu: im thinking a solution going forward would be "claim bets", ie, bets that resolve one way unless proof to the contrary is presented in the comments.

mircea_popescu: since when the motherfucking hells does the administration have a say in this!

mircea_popescu: now that may be a good idea

mircea_popescu: or add a rule "whenever the last bet on page is not in my list of read bets, halve the checking interval"

mircea_popescu: davout except satoshi is misleading, itcould receive a goat.

mircea_popescu: i wonder how many people reading the logs just got a legal & philosophical education.

mircea_popescu: "germany understands this peace treaty as a carte blanche to fuck all your womenz"

mircea_popescu: the us might have a chance of being properly administered for a day.

mircea_popescu: the absolute isn't a conditional absolute, ie, "the bet won't changed except for parts we can get away with"

mircea_popescu: gotta give fluffypony's platform a living after all.

mircea_popescu: and as to how much sense a bet makes... who the fuck cares outside of the people betting on it.

mircea_popescu: davout well let's do these one at a time huh ?

mircea_popescu: consider perhaps a better example : we go into a japanese restaurant together, where we're given sticks to eat with.

mircea_popescu: lol. you ask me how so you've failed to make a case ? by failing to make a case lol.

mircea_popescu: (and if the bet was worded otherwise, this would havbe been true. if you can make a hundred billion dollar donation to berkshire you can currently win the berkshire bet too)

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform my intuition is that the machine couldhave evolving bias. like you know, a virgin girl trying to fuck you.

mircea_popescu: no fucking way this doesn't have a good solution

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Introduce religion and then bugs become "canon" << they've been trying to do that to bitcoin for a coupla years by now.

mircea_popescu: i still think this should be a solvable problem.

mircea_popescu: so then what in the fuck. you take an infinite lifespan to try out 10k options on a computer ?

mircea_popescu: in a town designed for driving nothing ever works.

mircea_popescu: in a town designed for walking everyone else does fine.

mircea_popescu: pankkake haha you have a way with words mr.

mircea_popescu: you gotta learn to computer on a language everyone despises, that'll keep you from thinking too much of fucking languages.

mircea_popescu: dub: ff crashed because ff << more specifically, because mozilla co STILL can't make a half decent garbage collector, so they constantly leak memory. yes, even version 69 or w/e they're up to by now.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: gentoo is arguably a 'bad life decision' - like the folks who insist on bicycle for commuting << im interested to hear more of the latter part, do tell ?

mircea_popescu: basically the 400bn mkt cap company is in its entirety a hundred people trying to maintain a web directory, and we're back to the early 90s over here.

mircea_popescu: nevertheless, it DOES pop a right panel with a summary of mossberg's wikipedia page.

mircea_popescu: and speaking of mossberg : a google on re/code does NOT pop up the wikipedia page on the top 10 results, like for absolutely any other word with a wikipedia entry.

mircea_popescu: (mostly andrei soldatov, a much more interesting fellow than mossberg, imo)

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: there was talk a few yrs ago (russian) regarding a mesh net built on modern radio hardware in mexican mountains. supposedly destroyed (via agenture methods, no fancy tech) << built by the mexican mafia, was it.

mircea_popescu: not a bad observation.