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mircea_popescu: eh, it was doing ok
as a status symbol even before qt's four rooms thing (which is what i suppose you mean by blacks ?).
phf: ben_vulpes: blacks popularized champagne
as a status symbol, so i can see it newly becoming a thing
mircea_popescu: (romania has excellent wines -
as far
as whites go. the reds generally don't keep worth a shit, which is why it's not usually rated above france, notwithstanding wineries ~
as old, of ~same quality)
ben_vulpes: the apple liquor industry is spinning up
as well.
mircea_popescu: it's universal in the lifecycle of decaying empires that the official capitol seat
as depicted on coins is abandoned. and
as alf correctly pointed out recently, even nopw it's more ceremonial than functional.
mircea_popescu: hangovers are unknown in civilised lands, such
as transylvania. getting immensely drunk on the local stuff makes one's heart not in the slightest hurt. there's just this extremely pleasant mellowness the day following imbibing a liter of 52% tuica.
phf: i did my time
as TA, i've seen these people first hand
pete_dushenski: i'm suddenly reminded of that scene in the simpsons where the mob boss tells bart that "crime doesn't pay"
as he rolls up the tinted window on his limo and drives off smoking a fat cuban cigar. being an infidel is like being that mob bos innit.
mircea_popescu: ryan moar than happy to, even unasked. trump gets a shitload of stalin halo effect,
as it turns out.
mircea_popescu: other than the lulz implicit - let's do some math here. so - hillary won,
as the progretards don't fail to mention, the popular vote. hence... 92% of 50.5% = 1/3 of 100% ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose nigel farage gets crowned
as next king in uk and all is well on teh western front lmao
mircea_popescu: i dont' get it, what's this, "advertisement" on reddit for reddit run
as a sort of kickstarter ?
mircea_popescu: forget sexism, it's a non issue. nobody cares, it doesn't matter, it's about
as important or relevant
as ether
pete_dushenski: ^ one of my first 'market reaction'-related thoughts this morning
as well
mircea_popescu: " Think of how wrong the entire national media conversation was—and yes, I contributed my fair share—about how the Republicans were being torn apart
as a party."
mircea_popescu: anyway, this just in : democratic party has ~same level of political clout / practical control
as the libertarians traditionally do ; and significantly less cachet than the tea party at its peak. they're going to be content with... municipal politics, for the next 4+ years.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-09 18:56 asciilifeform:
https://archive.is/Uesuf >> 'While he richly deserves to find his proper station in life
as an opinionated taxi driver, this clown is unfortunately likely to be with us for years to come, bringing shame on the profession of quantitative analysis of data. We’ll be watching, Nate.'
mircea_popescu: this never happened
as far
as we know. it is certainly far beyond what contagion can provide.
mircea_popescu: but "major extinction event" here means, >99% of pop is exterminated in short time, such
as a year or a decade.
mircea_popescu: branson iirc lived in some island ; and cuban i have nfi, but he's worth ~same
as esr.
mircea_popescu:
as the old adage goes, "if you're gonna lie, lie outrageously, small lies never fare well"
BingoBoingo: The thing about socialistards is that to keep winning that have to run further and further towards Swedenhell
as a platform. If they try to "moderate" like Clitler coming from Bahamas they stall like a motor stalls.
BingoBoingo: lol, cuban american in Florida won it for Trump. Pls tell me more about "hispanics"
as a monolith
mircea_popescu: and yes, he has a point, expensive, complex, might
as well get a 1mn plane if you will bother.
mircea_popescu: the point being that it's not
as reliable
as car, not even close. if you gotta show up in the morning unexpectedly (meaning, you partied with two hos till 3 am) and then the weather's bad, your survival rate dropped to like 60%.
mircea_popescu: and in places with harsh weather (such
as, everywhere civilised men live, east coast, etc) you can't fly them 2 days a week
ben_vulpes: “dollar spooked in asia
as us polls too close to call†-- reuters
ben_vulpes finds planes precisely
as interesting
as cars
pete_dushenski: aha. ben_vulpes does own wrenching on old murican metal. i enjoy the relationships with my mechanics and learning about how each of them is designed
as various pieces break and sundry fluids leak out.
pete_dushenski: anyways, for
as much
as i love cars, i'd be quite content to have a chauffeur 95% of the time. and for flying a chauffeur is just fine by me 100% of the time.
pete_dushenski:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-08#1563985 << and how! so eager, so hungry. the youf there are
as close
as i've seen first-hand to 'blue jeans'-level of adventurousness. whatever tensions between east and west are going on there are working like a charm. it's like the european philippines or something, everyone you meet from there is
as friendly, hard-working and unpretentious
as they come.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: hey,
as close to a surogate of nationality
as they can muster over there.
ben_vulpes: same ip
as before, for those hand-tending the /etc/hosts bonsai
shinohai: "Votes from Guam, however, don’t count,
as the island has no representation in the Electoral College. "
a111: Logged on 2016-05-20 20:33 mircea_popescu: and what's worse, the "wiki" style is proven not to work. even something originally
as promising
as tvtropes has over the years decayed into this unfunny collection of tiresome goop.
mircea_popescu: the us health care problem has only one solution, and it's compressive not expansive. a) shoot all the malades imaginaires (such
as, fine example,
https://archive.is/yyQny). these literally have to be shot, no possible two ways about it ; b) make it impossible for doctors to give the patient benefits. no days off from work ; no financial payments dependent on what doctor says on paper. nothing. no more painkillers of any kind
mircea_popescu: it's always tempting to say that "this dish is shit, but let me add some sauce",
as if the superset of shit somehow redeems the individual turds.
mircea_popescu: somehow they ALSO all omit to point out that a) they were wrong and b) the others were right ; or propose any sort of penitence, such
as you know, hanging themselves.
mircea_popescu: PeterL yeah, up until the vote turns out +20 trump rather than +4
as the polls showed.
PeterL: I have seen a bunch of memes popping up on arsebook praising Obummer for having "8 years with no scandals", they seem to forget that the scandals plaguing Hillary stem from her time
as part of the Obummer administration
mircea_popescu: new hampshire traditionally has the early closed ballots because all the small towns can close
as soon
as all ballots are cast and the residents usually show up at midnight and vote.
mircea_popescu: the strength of feeling is what matters, not its "direction", esp not
as self-reported by the feeler.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
as oft happens, they make whore (camp followers, whatever) quarters
as close
as practicable.
adlai will keep a rough headcount
as the years pass
adlai: but iiuc combustion is a pretty total obliteration of chains. co2 isn't often referred to
as 1,1-methandione, is it?
ben_vulpes: i have 2 smallish repairs on the docket: replacing the seatbelt and fixing the blend door in the HVAC system. coming up with a plan for the first was trivial, once i had assembly plans for the seats and restraints in hand. i have a bead on how to diagnose the hvac blend
as well, similarly derived from the heat control actuator harness assembly diagrams.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-07 12:26 mircea_popescu: kids who go to real college where they learn real science also learn intrinsically this, that to asq a question is to beg for money, and to disguise your questions
as anything else is felonious. so they get an over-active self censor. meanwhile the idiots who do not go to real college, but to fake empire college learn that they can overpower their better peers through sheer gab. because "human rights" and "freedom of speech"
soneelks: if i might, you cunts are stylish
as fuck
mircea_popescu: don't worry ben_vulpes by the time you're
as poor
as mark twain's nigger called jerry, you'll be just
as energetic and passionate i'm sure!
ben_vulpes: a) "do you really think that will last?" b) "that's pretty amusingly accidentally regressive,
as ~all companies 'serving' the poor satisfy that"
mircea_popescu: the reason blacks back then weren't intelligent and well spoken
as now has to do with the cruel conditions in which they lived. back then, unlike now.
mircea_popescu: mark twain is
as much a threat to "our" democracy
as trump could ever hope to be.
mircea_popescu: trinque that piece is particularly scandalous. imagine, the only writer worth two shits to ever crawl out of that god forsaken hole, not only a living testament to how smoking twenty cigars a day doesn't give you cancer ; but even daring to represent black slavery
as a carefree life of exact equivalency to the shenanigans of today's barristas and waitresses with jezbel aspirations!
deedbot: 1DA9BDD523D0B317558741B9EB932A4D29CC0742 registered
as MagnusFox.
BingoBoingo: Naturally I seem to be. James paid the price for getting his Elliot love and Elliot lived the only natural life he could
as a racially ambiguous kid in the desrt.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-05 10:06 diana_coman: contest anyway; considering however that it was set for Halloween, I guess I'd go with "goriest" and therefore BingoBoingo should win;
as a side, I must say I don't quite follow the point of "all possible positions expressed" since they were quite clear/obvious anyway;
ben_vulpes: somewhere in the back of my head i'm balancing the tradeoffs of continuing to use apple machines
as ssh terminals into actually-usable machines vs cutting over to linux or a bsd wholesale
mircea_popescu: why ? i'd rather have a cs-based bicoin with the described node-miner issues resolved (
as described)
mircea_popescu: just
as long
as i pay 700 bux to the trb, it's not going anywhere.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform to peg
as in a currency, 1 trb = 1 prb to start. may devalue
as time goes by of course.
mircea_popescu: hitler needed money for the exact same reason henry 2 needed it : so
as to make the nobles compete.
mircea_popescu: imagine
as he sat in the bunker listening to the first artillery bombardments audible from berlin, hitler got a wire from bundesbank that the venusians just deposited 11 billiards marks in the eternal reich's account.
mircea_popescu: obviously it depends what you mean by "actual". if you mean nude object, then sure, any dollars that made their way to venus may be appreciated aesthetically by the venusians, and therefore they weren't really intrinsically chumpatronic. but in the system
as it is, defined historically and therefore enclosed, it can be said the zil-buying ability is a paritcular property of rubles q rubles.