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mircea_popescu: "Hysteresis defeatism interprets
a weak recovery due to inadequate stimulus as
a reason not to try more stimulus"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform stirlitz rose from sofa and tore at the curtain, wherein
a romanian spy was hiding ?
mircea_popescu: like
a vassar for poor midwestern would be carrie bradshaws ?
mircea_popescu: i'm the sort that shoots you in both shoulders and both knees, then pulls
a chair close and watches you bleed.
bitcoinpete: so who can hook me up with
a coinbr referral code?
davout: i should make
a bot that echoes assbot, the chan would explode the instant someone says amazing
mircea_popescu: "write
a 500 word essay as to why you're not
a scammer"
mircea_popescu: funny how terminally braindamaged entities which by the very definition of the term can not possibly have
a personal relation to anything
bitcoinpete: "Questions about whether
a market is trustworthy go to the heart of
a market’s survival. Is the market fair? Is it efficient? How does it facilitate capital formation? Are investors protected? Do you trust it?"
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: they should call
a spade
a spade and just say "was still
a senior developer, but we lost
a bunch of managers and needed
a lead developer that needed
a sense of self-importance"
gribble: wn: demure adj 1: affectedly modest or shy especially in
a playful or provocative way [syn: {coy}, {demure}, {overmodest}]
gribble: wn: demur n 1: (law)
a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings [syn: {demur}, {demurral}, {demurrer}] v 1: take exception to; "he demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday" [syn: {demur}, {except}] 2: enter
a demurrer
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: what's this definition in context stuff? i could've sworn we had dictionaries for
a reason ;)
mircea_popescu: princessnell my only familiarity with the term is in the context "he proposed but she demured", ie, how to end up
a spinster.
nubbins`: i've imagined it to be like having
a secret, but i suspect that's more due to my not being demure by nature than to an actual understanding of the condition
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete "
A long track record of success, omitted here for reasons that were in turn omitted"
bitcoinpete: ceo is "Eduardo deCastro is
a serial entrepreneur with
a long track record of success"
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: what about
a restaurant that only accepts BTC?
mircea_popescu: princessnell no,
a restaurant that accepts btc is not
a bitcoin entrepreneur
Namworld: There's
a shortage of huge, hanging whale skeletons?
nubbins`: very tiny, very rural community, surrounded by -- but not part of --
a national park and UNESCO world heritage site
nubbins`: nah, analyzing all of the tissue and bringing the skeleton to
a museum
bounce: don't need
a how-to for that. blow it up before it blows itself up.
ozbot: How do you take apart
a 150-tonne whale? - Newfoundland & Labrador - CBC News
mircea_popescu: nubbins` whio the fuck can even pay attention to 12 things in
a year
nubbins`: Namworld: nod, all
a big mess. reminiscent of loblaws/superstore/dominion all selling President's Choice
nubbins`: genius finds himself taking bar exams for crappy students, ends up working sans degree at
a prestigious law firm
nubbins`: good to know i'll be passing the guy in the street in
a couple years
benkay: i hear tell of
a mythical time where one could attempt the US bar without having
a law degree.
mircea_popescu: you wanted
a degree, you had to pass all of
a dozen or so courses.
nubbins`: my entire bachelor's degree was
a comical undershoot
nubbins`: uni courses are generally assigned
a number of credits
benkay: at least you don't have to take
a class to do an internship, nubbins`
nubbins`: not sure about the usa, but if
a canadian takes
a job "up north", they get
a government subsidy called the "northern allowance" to offset the increased price of goods
nubbins`: ^ i got
a $50 parking ticket today
mircea_popescu: labour is
a dollar an hour, you don't need much more than
a few hundred man-hours anyway. renting the machinery and getting some concrete/sand/brick isn't the end of the world.
mircea_popescu: "@kristathomas Don't Be Right And Don't Ask Why: Essential Ingredients For Building
A Team" << lol. just as long as your "team"'s not supposed to be apple.
bounce: 5k what? dollars? that's
a wooden shed, materials only, or what?
benkay: 80k is
a luxury product now?
mircea_popescu: "@SunSentinel · 1h Man drives Tesla from New York to Miami at no cost" who the fuck came up with this idiocy. the tesla is
a luxury product. the people who buy luxury products are being sold on "no cost" housewife routines ?
TheNewDeal: making
a noise isn't necessarily indicative of mechanical integrity
pankkake: if you hold
a macbook with only one hand too much, they'll eventually bend
TheNewDeal: if you grabbed
a computer case by two opposite corners and flex gently, does it make
a noise?
mircea_popescu: I should also note that no one else makes
a laptop whose metallic chassis enables it to pass the “Creak Test” – hold
a device by two opposite corners and flex gently. Do you hear
a noise of any kind? If so, you are holding
a mechanically-unsound piece of garbage.
mircea_popescu: Imagine that every car maker save for Toyota insisted on using the infamous East German Trabant as
a standard of quality – yet blindly imitated random elements of Toyota’s visual design. How long would it take for the whiners to appear on the scene and start making noises about monopolistic tyranny?
mircea_popescu: i had
a guess the word contest whatever you call it in english
danielpbarron: if Bitcoin is worth 1000000 USD,
a trilema page view probably really is worth 450 USD per view
Apocalyptic: <asciilifeform> i thought it meant 'employed as cryptographer' // wait, hanbot is
a cryptographer N
fluffypony: mike_c: you could run
a proxy using your cookie
fluffypony: I mean, when BTC is at 1mil
a pack of Trilema creds will be worth $10k. if you're long on BTC you'll have
a net worth an order of magnitude higher than that, so it'll be irrelevant.
fluffypony: danielpbarron: I think the cost is too low to have
a measurable impact on one's personal wealth
mircea_popescu: people ocasionalyl just want to make
a donation, and so i think there are some people with 5 or 10 btc's worht
mircea_popescu: well imo they're much too cheap atm, so ima not change them
a while.
fluffypony: but who knows, maybe it'll become "
a thing", to quote ThickAsThieves :-P
mircea_popescu: so basically, every failed marketing fucktard in the world has by now flocked to doge coins, as
a great example of the "unlimted possibility" and "all that cvould be achieved" for marketing fucktards, in their own opinion.
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: their effort isn't the big deal - they published the nginx rules, and there's been
a bit of uptake from other sites implementing them
mircea_popescu: " Designed as
a 21st century reincarnation of GeoCities, Neocities lets you make your own site for free. And it just might spark
a renaissance of creativity online. "
mircea_popescu: i wanted to make
a ocmment, but then i couldn't understand what comment i want to make.
fluffypony: benkay:Magento's
a really good example of this. <- this is so freakin' true. Even worse are when they pay for
a ton of dev work on Magento Community Edition and then move to Magento Enterprise, and basically have to re-engineer and re-do all the work
mircea_popescu: princessnell maybe go in #freenode and ask for
a cloak ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c im sure they did. five car wheels and
a baggie o crystalz.
mike_c: <+mircea_popescu> asciilifeform no, actually, in the city where black people burn down the downtown if the wrong team wins whatever game << well, you know, maybe they had
a big bet on the game :D
pankkake: "Now that
a highly controversial figure has been elected" who?
mike_c: why not
a 7 at the end?