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dub: they probably fought for pol pot, it was
a chinese backed communist coup
mircea_popescu: sucks for him, too, seeing how the random people in
a position to be charitable are trained not to be.
dub: one of my guides was
a teenage guy with some english, works 7 days
a week for
a french operated tour for 5 months to pay for 1 month of 1 hour
a day of schooling
dub: interesting study of the nigger dilemna there,
a generation ago all the smart people were removed
dub:
a) the gender of that thing is unclear b) looks like
a shitty 'your message here' generator things
dub: i didnt think it was legal for
a 13 y/o tp marry in texas
mircea_popescu: so guy's looking like
a brony. you figure that hurts ?
mircea_popescu: preferably someone with
a large ideological support structure :
a feminist,
a race warrior, something.
mircea_popescu: so please, everyone with half
a brain cell : if you've not trolled someone this week, do so.
fluffypony: when you look at that visual MS and Apple are the kings in terms of turning
a profit, Google to
a lesser degree
mircea_popescu: not
a bad visual, seeing how little reddit comprehends of numbers
jurov: benkay if you really do, i'm having
a few serious words with you then
decimation: why can't you replace the username/password pair with
a hash of the public key?
benkay: my ideal login flow is to just provide you
a key
Naphex: probably in
a few weeks, is going to be up
benkay: Naphex: any plans for
a gpg auth?
ThickAsThieves: btw someone here recommend i watch the Black Mirror, turns out I already saw it, and had been trying to remember it for
a while cuz i liked episode 2
benkay: or if you're doing something like
a phased microwave array around the planet, coating the bottom of the vehicle with
a microwave rectifier
mircea_popescu: what the fuck, how many lux are needed to boil
a mol of water ?
benkay: mircea_popescu: it's for superheating
a real ejection mass
jurov: the fiber is just
a means to supply energy to the thruster
mircea_popescu: artifexd that's excessive, but
a cone works well to resolve this problem.
mircea_popescu: the first serious capitalist building was...
a rope factory.
mircea_popescu: and so, for about
a century, making better rope was more important for each country than making better ipads is today.
mircea_popescu: so do the math. calculate the the maximum shear force that can occur in
a taut fiber of arbitrary length ?
mircea_popescu: when i was younger i used to fuck this young opera singer chick. she did this trick whereby she'd sing into
a glas
mircea_popescu: jurov ever calculated the maximum shear force that can occur in
a taut fiber of arbitrary length ?
gribble: Error: Something in there wasn't
a valid number.
jurov: i did, it was under
a kiolgram
mircea_popescu: <artifexd> Does
a gag order require denying such
a gag order exists? << usually.
artifexd: What data does coindesk have? Reader's ip addresses? They're
a news aggregator.
mircea_popescu: artifexd it's
a real thing. coindesk dumps all its data daily.
artifexd: Does
a gag order require denying such
a gag order exists?
artifexd: Is that
a real thing or
a joke on the nsa watching/logging everything?
fluffypony: asciilifeform: successful == hasn't married
a drunkard and/or hasn't gone to prison
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: my paternal grandmother is
a very traditional, superstitious, short Italian woman (who cooks accordingly). she says my dad was the most successful of her 3 children because "he steal alla of tha calcium from me, he leave none for Daniele and Sonia"
benkay: some claim it does
a half-assed job.
benkay: important to note that just because
a thing claims to be legal in the states is no guarantee of its legality or quality or anything really.
benkay: the brand i've been made aware of by
a friend who once smoked three pots (!) all at once (!) is 'spyce'
mircea_popescu: kinda why regressive tax is actually the only way for national/polis stability. it acts as
a de facto offer.
mircea_popescu: the whatsapp had "users", airbnb is "
a success", coindesk is being pumped by gigaom as "relevant" and coindesk has
a lot of users and etc.
fluffypony: I know
a bunch of people in the US that think Coinbase is *the* only way to buy Bitcoin
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: no you have to create an account to use them, not based on
a cookie'd ID
fluffypony: I wouldn't be surprised - every time someone buys BTC through them doesn't it create
a wallet?
fluffypony: wow, Coinbase has 1.2 million customer wallets, that's
a goxing waiting to happen
fluffypony: I was hoping for
a submarine inside it as I was scrolling
ozbot: What can fit inside
a C-5 Galaxy? - Imgur
mircea_popescu: women stuff. it's incomprehensible, but required for
a functioning society.
ThickAsThieves: you can get get
a plain new house for like $180k 2000sqft
fluffypony: but still, $1 mil goes
a lot further here than the small-ish town my in-laws are in in Germany
fluffypony: you can even get
a 30 acre farm near Cape Point with cottages and farm house for that
fluffypony: but for the most part R10 mil will get you
a pretty huge and elaborate place
fluffypony: maybe
a very small apartment with limited sea view
mircea_popescu: all that followed followed from this simple principle,
a hundred men wanted to sort out who sits where in the forum.
mircea_popescu: but the entire roman republic, pre empire, can be correctly summarized as
a set of benches somewhere, and people vying for position on the best bench.
mircea_popescu: Having been both
a student and teacher at MIT, my personal explanation for men going into science is the following: young men strive to achieve high status among their peer group ; men tend to lack perspective and are unable to step back and ask the question "is this peer group worth impressing?"
mircea_popescu: "
A lot more men than women choose to do seemingly irrational things such as become petty criminals, fly homebuilt helicopters, play video games, and keep tropical fish as pets (98 percent of the attendees at the American Cichlid Association convention that I last attended were male). Should we be surprised that it is mostly men who spend 10 years banging their heads against an equation-filled blackboard in hopes of lan
mircea_popescu: "i'm the boyfriend of that chick you picked up at
a traffic stop in 2011 ASSHOLE!11"
fluffypony: ok so now I've gone to look at
a bunch of pictures of wasps killing spiders
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> that's no criteria. obama has been trying to be
a president for
a while, he still sucks at it.
ozbot: The complexity of life,
a triad pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
ozbot: KKK Leader Caught With
a Black Male Prostitute -- NYMag
moiety: is this the root of today's happy? (side note -- i think
a manul would taste good, most hard to catch things do)
moiety:
a moment silence please - manul down!
ozbot: The complexity of life,
a triad pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.