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mircea_popescu: i've seen cost cutting to the bone implemented as "let's make it out of mud"
mircea_popescu: it's the right fucking choice for this tool, and the bravery to do it right rather than buy from ibm is staggeringly beautiful to my eye
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform tell me why anyone sane would put a clock in at all if he has to ntp anyway
mircea_popescu: mats: id imagine a feminist would approve of such female empowering tech << i approve, at least prima facie. and im pretty sure im the last feminist alive.
mircea_popescu: it sounds exactly like the way i have been getting cunt the past coupla decades, ie, via the female wot, just somehow opened up to the general public.
mircea_popescu: mats you know on the strength of all that ima have to check out tinder now
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, because guy knows the ip and can just check if a node answers there
mircea_popescu: running node for the purpose of having nodes on the network.
mircea_popescu: lol totally ben_vulpes hanbot has it : the little nubbin was angling for your ass.
mircea_popescu: he's exactly their fucking poster child : politically aware, rhetorically prepared, ready to lie and fake it all the way.
mircea_popescu: and a whole shitload of "charity" in africa isn't going towash this off of them. poor monkey is doing what they claiemd he should be doing. fucking frauds.
mircea_popescu: i blame undressen horowitz and paul graham and fucking bill gates. that's who i blame.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you know in retrospect, i don't actually blame the woodcarver idiot. he's just some monkey doing what he should be doing : monkeying.
mircea_popescu: shit, let's do a cold fusion and circle cvadrature bounty on tardstalk!
mircea_popescu: "I would be willing to offer a negotiable fee or bounty to anyone who could solve this engineering problem."
mircea_popescu: undata if the air and food weren't meeting you couldn't likely speak
mircea_popescu: undata that's the idea, all payments leave from the same address.
mircea_popescu: actually, thats an idea : have rails insalled in the flooring, as if for the doors of a walk-in closet, and make the girls wear high heels that are hooked in there
mircea_popescu: an enchanted land where bursitis isn't a thing and so on.
mircea_popescu: better buy up all the cheap venezuelean consuelas before you geriatrics figure it out
mircea_popescu: so basically, teh lich/vampire mythology is all correct.
mircea_popescu: wait, CROWD SALE ? it's not only stupid, it's also a scam ?
mircea_popescu: jurov: and isn't winklevii? << yeah it is, bingoboingo
mircea_popescu: it's really not hard to do. works best with good quality glass or ebonite dice best.
mircea_popescu: jurov but realy, the correct way to do it is, make a 40x40 grid in a wooden box that's the size of the dice, buy 1600 dice, shake until they settle then photograph and read the thing.
mircea_popescu: TomServo conversation is meaningless outside context. how do you supply context ?
mircea_popescu: jurov: why? once per second, in half hour you're done << you can throw six at a time, be done in five minutes
mircea_popescu: but adding Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof to the list of blacklisted idiots is a useful result of the effort, i guess.
mircea_popescu: one does not become bitcoin-assets by defecating in google docs.
mircea_popescu: TomServo: I'd probably take steps to avoid this place if my first taste was the sexyginger video. << would you ? what wouldhave the contrary effect ?
mircea_popescu: davout: if it keeps taleb out and lets taaki << doesn't seem to be doing that tho.
mircea_popescu: and upon invention of writing there were tons of cool people that never caught the boat.
mircea_popescu: i'm sure that upon invention of speech there were some pretty hott neanderthals that nevertheless couldn't make the cut.
mircea_popescu: that's the only sort of technically inept interesting people that can be.
mircea_popescu: davout: pete_dushenski: some interesting people we'd like to have around could very well not be so technically proficient << sluts belong in the bedroom not in the public forum.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: this is north america after all. not having a car is like not having a temperature controlled home << i didn;t know fish liked to drive up north.
mircea_popescu: davout: it's actually pretty lame that people *must* be cloaked to come here, even for the first time << why ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the fastest, thickest, most luxurious car is --- not having to go places. << i still go places, even tho i dun have to.