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VanCleef: anyone know goats address i'd like to send him a bucket of sperm
asciilifeform: not that this situation is impossible - but most large co.s have a third party run their chumpatronics
mircea_popescu: you may actually force him over a threshold, with results so far out of proportion he might as well just shoot you and bury you in hudson river.
mircea_popescu: the matching gives him a tax break.
asciilifeform: if it's a corp that 'matches' 401k, and avaricious boss, he ought to fire the more expensive fellow (the one who opts in) ?
mircea_popescu: pending you prove that you have a "legitimate reason" and in any case you face prosecution under the "trying to avoid prosecution for using your own money" laws.
asciilifeform: but there isn't an official 'humans must keep cash in a bank' rule atm.
mircea_popescu: if i hire someone to go take money out every day for a year, 300 bucks at a time,
mircea_popescu: let's run some scenarios. i am a contractor, working for you. you write me a check for 100k.
ThickAsThieves: yes the $xxxx thing is a real throttle
asciilifeform: since when? every bank i ever used let you take it out. granted, if you take more than $xxxx in one day, the anti-terrorism folks get a phone call.
mircea_popescu: if you become a contractor you will be paid by check
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: if you're hard up for work, become a reverse engineer
kakobrekla: never had a job in my view.
ThickAsThieves: let's not veer over a cliff here, this started mostly by pointing out that anyone who's well read in this space probably has something valuable to offer
kakobrekla: i did a lot of stuff to eat
mircea_popescu: a little hard to buy what he buys with wot rating.
ThickAsThieves: kakobrekla> <ThickAsThieves> i define it as something productive, worth doing, that provides mutual benefit to me and at least one other party < you dont need a biz or a job or anything for that /// only in the broad sense, i wouldnt personally find that "worth doing" in my own values of what my time is worth
mircea_popescu: but that guy does not buy a reel of resistors.
asciilifeform: a little hard to buy a reel of 0805 resistors with paper hundies
kakobrekla: <ThickAsThieves> i define it as something productive, worth doing, that provides mutual benefit to me and at least one other party < you dont need a biz or a job or anything for that
asciilifeform: somebody explain the mindfuck from earlier. the 'check cashing shop' thing isn't a straight scam?
kakobrekla: <ThickAsThieves> i feel like i should be able to get a job just mased on all the readin ive done the past year < isnt it the point that you end up not having 'a job'
mircea_popescu: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Marriage_Leopold_of_Austria_Eleonore_of_Pfalz_Neuburg.jpg << cocksucking was A LOT more expensive in 1676.
mircea_popescu: "If your employer offers you insurance that doesn’t provide free ella, or anything else on the list of “preventive services”—as defined by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and ultimately by Obama—then it’s subject to a fine of $36,500 a year. But if your employer doesn’t offer you insurance at all, it’s subject to a fine of $2,000 a year. "
kakobrekla: <mircea_popescu> making a proper reading list is definitely something someone with a background in education could halp with < yes someone give her a hand so we dont end up with links to facebook :p
ThickAsThieves: i feel like i should be able to get a job just mased on all the readin ive done the past year
ThickAsThieves: it's a fucking oddysey by now
mircea_popescu: making a proper reading list is definitely something someone with a background in education could halp with
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves we definitely need a curriculum, currently it's "stfu and read", but the implied "read what ?!" is never really addressed.
ThickAsThieves: maybe it ends up a curriculum
mircea_popescu: no, like a recomended reading list.
lampelina: a faq or similar?
chetty: Mats_cd03, that was a great article, thanks much
mircea_popescu: lampelina hey, you considering a "must read these" page ?
mircea_popescu: we probably should make a list of required reading
chetty: the organization plays a critical role in influencing the behavior of banks and financial institutions around the country
herbijudlestoids: randomly on coindesk one day saw MPex mentioned, about a week ago ithink
mircea_popescu: just in time, i'm hatching a scholarship thingee
blackwhite: so this is unrelated to bitcoin but might still be of interest. I am doing a contextual note taking app for osx. I have an alpha version and is looking for a few people to test it. The look of it is like this http://grab.by/vs1G
Mats_cd03: universities should just offer 'ripping off government acquisitions managers' as a degree and be done with it
Mats_cd03: i just talked to an "intelligence professional" that wants to study "data sciences and analytics" through a "masters in (applied sciences) big data"
Neil: Don't really want to restart the convo of 24hrs ago, but I'll just point out that our friend http://bitbet.us/stats/16tAoe9PWgyncvCRxjtisPiNy9Pbcrqsgf/ has done simultaneous bets on both sides of several bets. *Every* 2-way bet that has resolved so far has been a loss for him, often substantially so.
jurov: nubbins`: the drive asks too much juice, use other or a powered hub
jurov: what about a bet "#bitcoin-assets daily log to have > 5000 lines any day"
benkay: ;;later tell BingoBoingo tonight you started a post about something
BingoBoingo: ;; later someone remind me that tonight I started a great post about the quartz revolution and the swiss watch industry
BingoBoingo: Differences between the crazy and the merely ignorant, the crazy possess an enviable ability for introspection http://www.crazymeds.us/CrazyTalk/index.php/topic/25093-how-can-i-invent-a-new-disorder/#entry158059
joecool: nubbins`: he got it back and now runs a very successful pot chain, ross' gold
nubbins`: there was a canadian snowboarded who lost olympic gold after testing + for pot
BingoBoingo: Took the ASVAB with a migraine
nubbins`: he wrote his calculus exams with a fucking pen
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: If you can throw a baseball in the strikezone at 92+ mph that will cease to be a dilema
nubbins`: it's time for a where's my ritalin
ozbot: How can Bitcoin be taxed as property, but regulated as money? It's time for a class action lawsuit.
joecool: so yeah prob good have a bunch of gym guys make it
BingoBoingo: It isn't a problem of lacking the ability to, they lack the humor
nubbins`: like when dude banged his wife in the middle of a football field
nubbins`: "Now that you’ve been eating like a predator for some time, you are discovering that when you eat like a predator, and play like a predator, you start thinking like a predator. Stupid people aren’t annoyances: they’re profit centers. Fat people are no longer disgusting: they’re delicious."
BingoBoingo: Fassbender doesn't have a LayerCake though
VanCleef: bingoboingo who do you think would make a good james bond after craig?
VanCleef: not a fan of breaking bad
BingoBoingo: VanCleef: You realize such a thing is basically Breaking Bad, but centered on Tuco
ozbot: Robert Rodriguez's New El Rey Network Plans a 'Latino James Bond' Series | Filmmakers, Film Industry
VanCleef: http://www.indiewire.com/article/robert-rodriguezs-new-el-rey-network-plans-a-latino-james-bond-series
VanCleef: robert rodriguez is making a latino james bond film
nubbins`: it was a piece of shit, turned it off 15min in
BingoBoingo: It may have been a hosted online stream of skyfall though
[\]: mircea_popescu: https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1.0-9/1604971_10153660262365058_918624375_n.jpg
nubbins`: i used to live with a sommelier
BingoBoingo: If anyone just wants to ask questions and scoop a part of this, I'd be cool with that
BingoBoingo: I thought suggesting a 13/16 time signature for a reading cadence at the start might get the gravity of the reading going
asciilifeform: speaking of terminology, is there a... 'suburban dictionary' ? 'rural dictionary' ?
BingoBoingo: They are one of the first ventures in this space I was a customer of
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, that may be usefull as I turn my notes into a post.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Derpasaurii as a construction necessitation clarifying relations between herp and derp
moiety: baby daddy is so cool, he's a sommelier you know
asciilifeform: nitpick with pediwikia - the 'batman' in the epic is not wearing a 'batman' costume. he's a bloke who smashes heads with a baseball bat. ☟︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: moiety probably in a quest to get in her panties.
moiety: my guess i began with someone trying to tell a noob they were more skilled/important than they actually were asciilifeform
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=derp | A simple, undefined reply when an ignorant comment or action is made. Brought to life in the South Park series, when Mr. Derp made a guest apperanc...
asciilifeform: t vanish - but it was reduced to choosing from that which had already been created. Figuratively speaking, we no longer grow grapes. We send for a bottle from the cellar. People who carry out this task, we call "sommeliers."
asciilifeform: - People had already devised all necessary things. Once, long ago, mankind developed in leaps and bounds - not only did the objects around us change constantly, but so did the words we used. In those days there were a great many names for a creative person - engineer, poet, scholar. And all of them constantly invented new things. But that was mankind's childhood. And then it reached maturity. Creativity did no
asciilifeform: re: commoditized 'innovation' - here's a snipped from me turdbox. translation of a page in pelevin's epic 'snuff' (the one with s/ukraine/orkaine, 'orcs', etc) ☟︎
mircea_popescu: some derp that's trying to make a living out of conferences, and looking for sponsors
asciilifeform: wtf is a life coach
gribble: Error: "yandex" is not a valid command.
moiety: sorry went on a hot croissant/coffee mission
benkay: “Really, you got this funded?” Stamos asked. Yes, said the kid. “But it obviously didn’t work out,” Stamos replied. Right, said the kid. At which point Stamos began to piece together what must’ve happened. “You collected the data and realized a lot of the data out there is horrible, and you couldn’t make sense of it,” he said. The kid allowed that this was true. “You probably talked to CVS—everyone talks to CVS. And they tho
mircea_popescu: the dude did it for over a decade
mircea_popescu: MisterE but what she was trying to do was a sort of mean girls livetv
MisterE: Kardashian got famous by being fucked on a reality show iirc?
asciilifeform: moiety: best woman in russia << http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/a/ac/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C_%D0%97%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%91%D1%82_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5,_%D0%B2_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B5.jpg
moiety: mircea_popescu: if you can remember a time where lindsay lohan had reach puberty but not fucked up on drugs yet (yes it was a small window) that would be mean girls
mircea_popescu: ;;google 3d imaging technique where you use some knowledge of the lens distortion to compute a point cloud
benkay: hey smartypants: what's the 3d imaging technique where you use some knowledge of the lens distortion to compute a point cloud?
asciilifeform: 'Like excrement, it contains enough undigested nuggets of nutrition to sustain life for some. But it is not a tasty pie...' - dennis ritchie
mircea_popescu: this is a complete breakdown of the system
asciilifeform: how many nations have a maxwell.
moiety: and pey, my aunt lives across the road from a drambuie place