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ThickAsThieves: so
a further implication might be, don;t bet too hard against mircea or he'll just move the goal posts?
ThickAsThieves: does the section with the graph basically imply that as you made efforts to CYA on those purchased Puts, the influenced caused
a ripple that dropped the exchange rate all around?
mircea_popescu: Jan 25 16:40:13 <mircea_popescu>we're not equal, even if we can type the same strings in
a box they still aren't the same strings. depends whose name signs on them. we're not equal, even if two people have "the same idea", in one head it's an idea, in another head it's nothing.
ThickAsThieves: but to you'd have to "fruit" "loosely" if using
a cucumber
nubbins`: what sort of deviant would eat
a banana peel ;(
ThickAsThieves: "Just noticed my TOR wallet emptied
a couple of days ago"
mircea_popescu: "The quantum droplet is made up of roughly five electrons and five holes. It possesses some characteristics of
a liquid, like having ripples, the scientists said."
ThickAsThieves: there's one guy out there that's like, Wait I was serious! I'm not
a machine!
mircea_popescu: meanwhile russia is still
a sovereign, but the us is not sovereign anymore.
mircea_popescu: back when the us was still
a sovereign, it promised (together with russia) to defend the ukrainian border if ukraina agrees to dismantle nukes.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu,
a belated birthday gift
mircea_popescu: lmao @55 seat parliament. i imagine their senate is not large enough to supply players for
a tournament of bridge.
ThickAsThieves: how will they fair when he dies? "Next year’s letter will review our 50 years at Berkshire and speculate
a bit about the next 50. In the meantime, come to Omaha on May 3rd and enjoy our Woodstock for Capitalists."
ThickAsThieves: not sure i know how to read it right, but i see $74.3t in
a lot of places
mircea_popescu: you'll need all the help you can get propping up the "ignorant idiot without
a clue" defense.
mircea_popescu: wao-ender we're having this little private war, had for
a while. mp versus the idiots.
cazalla: mircea_popescu: when
a bet i created is added to the site, why does it show duplicate bets coming from my address?
nubbins`: i should get
a firearms license
mircea_popescu: i have never used
a plastic card to pay for any purchase during my entire stay here.
mircea_popescu: more than the value per se, romania is still to this day
a cash economy.
nubbins`: not unusual to find yourself in the lineup at canadian tire, stuck behind some asshole buying
a snowblower with canadian tire money
nubbins`: ah, they're all the same. does
a horse prefer one gopher hole over another?
ThickAsThieves: Options include skipping
a G8 summit planned for this summer in Sochi, Russia, as well as trade limitations "and putting some commerce deals on hold," Al Jazeera's Jordan reports.
ThickAsThieves: something about "warns Russia" bothers me... this isn't
a 3rd world country he's warning
cazalla: first time creating
a bet, why does the bet list me as having bet twice for
a larger amount?
mike_c: R.I.P. mpoe-bot... at least you went out with
a bang.
decimation: that is
a beautiful language for microcontrollers
BingoBoingo: Let us all cook pasta noodles in
a pressure cooker for 7 minutes, there must be NO better way to make glue!!!
BingoBoingo: And once I care enough to fix the SE/30 it will be
a thing again
decimation: ascii did you even find
a passable lisp machine emulator
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Why. The SE/30 is dead, but I still have
a flock of MacClassics
nubbins`: ^ named after
a picture mp linked once
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: If only hypercard was still
a thing
nubbins`: when rice visited bolivia, they gave her
a guitar with
a coca leaf lacquered onto it
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well consider that the payload necessary to neutralize
a GPS satellite can probably be measured in
a single digit number of grams. Even many "tactical" missiles if stripped for the locker room could prolly do the job.
mircea_popescu: (who, if anyone forgot, he propositioned quite openly for
a spot in his harem)
mircea_popescu: gaddafi definitely coud have afforded to plug
a satelite.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well simple solution is allowing
a slug of metal to meet
a satellite
decimation: it's not fair to have
a WoT of robots that ignore the votes of the disenfranchised
nubbins`: soooo, it's equipped with
a sword?
mircea_popescu: andthey're going to somehow make
a 100kg self moving robot
nubbins`: Crime has
a $1 trillion impact on the American economy, according to Santana Li. “If we can show that we can literally cut that in half, we’re going to have every mayor in the country calling us,” he says.
decimation: yeah they are going to end up in
a chop shop in the ghetto within 10 minutes of operation
mircea_popescu: i can't begin to imagine how they figure this thing has
a fucking chance.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: In
a twist confounding most authors of robot oppressor scifi the boards with critical operational components in the bots are varied from unit to unit.
decimation: Oh, I was hoping someone was going to make
a real RoboCop
decimation: of course the leftists are having
a fit because this particular WoT ignores thier votes
decimation: it's an example of
a real-life WoT between silicon valley CEOs
decimation: maybe you can host your key in
a vps with
a web login
moiety: you make it sound like you cant do anything as
a girl without opening your legs :(
decimation: well, each big corp has
a WoT that generally consists of the CEO's drinking buddies
mircea_popescu: incidentally i suppose you've stumbled on
a perfectly valid business model, the translators among WoTs will be tomorrow's lawyers.
mircea_popescu: on
a lark i'd venture
a guess that <1% of irl businesses have
a truely global internet listening program going.
decimation: I think they are building
a good foundation before going big, unlike some out there...
decimation: yeah it seems that this netagio is
a spinoff of some kind. I'm surprised that he or his staff hasn't contacted you
mircea_popescu: im still looking for someone to run
a delivered gold future.
decimation: yeah he's
a hardcore goldbug and tries to cash in on that audience
BingoBoingo: Anymore
a bj is cheaper than
a pack of smokes
mircea_popescu: nubbins` the obvious response was to offer the whole pack for
a bj
BingoBoingo: Eh, when people too young ask me for cigarettes I usually tell them I have cancer and ask them if they really want
a cigarette.
mircea_popescu: decimation pounds and euro ? i already got
a euro future and what are these pounds
nubbins`: anecdote:
a friend was approached by
a young (~13yo) girl asking for
a cigarette. friend says "you're too young to smoke"
mircea_popescu: i wonder if hot chick lips and anus hot-dogs are
a delicacy in china.
nubbins`: what next, my lips and anus aren't
a hot dog?
mircea_popescu: like you know,
a rock falling down
a cliff isn't
a car.
mircea_popescu: "We need
a third party!" Come on, do you think the media will allow you to have
a third party? John Anderson, Ross Perot, Ralph Nader-- they let them through to "show" third party candidates aren't any more serious than Howard Stern when he ran for governor. Poor Ron Paul pulls in more people than porn but he can't get
a break, sorry buddy, 100 years too late for your kind. There's
a difference between what you ne
KRS-One: i did both for
a while..they both sucked.
KRS-One: you have to be
a tough bastard to work in roofing year round..i think doing concrete work was actually easier.
KRS-One:
a popular one here in Florida are concrete shingle..i did some roofing when i was younger..talk about hard work.
nubbins`: they use
a flamethrower to melt coal tar all over it
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Or to many other places. The most recent local tornado didn't come within
a mile, but other weird wind anamolies still had things impacting the roof in interestng ways
KRS-One: mircea_popescu: depending on the roof, the shingles arent what keeps the water out. main protection for
a roof comes from the tar paper that covers the wood. shingles only keep the sun from runing the tar paper.
BingoBoingo: No, but I've considered buying
a block of $200 houses in detroit and starting
a farm
nubbins`: "know what'd be
a good idea? if none of this shit was right angles"
moiety: this is why its good to know
a mechanic too
KRS-One: it nice to know
a roofer..i got
a new roof put on my house for real cheap, just labor and materials.
BingoBoingo: KRS-One: In the US the only thing you can acquire with
a license is risk and liability