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BingoBoingo: I'll get to reading once the kingdom of nubbins` falls
ozbot: In which I discuss things I have no idea about pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/in-which-i-discuss-things-i-have-no-idea-about/ to trace where i stumbled on it
mircea_popescu: i suppose it may be.
BingoBoingo: I was thinking April. I didn't realize they still pretended they had volume.
nubbins`: will do, pretty hectic these days but i'm sure i can find somewhere to set a board up
nubbins`: i prefer white
nubbins`: i've just been printing flat ones on cotton rag so far, but i'm hoping to try printing directly to wood soon
nubbins`: i've printed chessboards, too
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Neither am I. ~950 Elo rated if anyone cares.
nubbins`: i play occasionally. not very good
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I understand. I need to blog moar.
mircea_popescu: ense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is…in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
mircea_popescu: “In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their s
BingoBoingo: I'll search the logs, might be a while. Or maybe I'm trippin balls. Probably the latter.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Ah, I though you said sometime you had stopped by to visit.
mircea_popescu: i never was.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, there have been some in North America too. It is a situation where differing definitions of recovery and diagnoses conflict. I've had a cousin who while in the service got an AIDs shot in an experiment and still has something resembling an immune system though, so...
asciilifeform: nobody took the offer because, as i understand, grunts didn't want to burn through their paid leave.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i believe those were the 'limited studies.'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i meant the ketamine
dub: for medical grade ketamine I would say its not enjoyable at all
asciilifeform: phun phact: one of my old workplaces, a military lab, had ads hanging in the lounges, offering decent $ (around a thousand if i recall) for being given ketamine.
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: I just might be able to. I actually think I auth'd with gribble last Wednesday.
mircea_popescu: "i've allegedly signed some papers i've never read"
nubbins`: hell, if i had a dollar for every time i achieved complete awareness
nubbins`: if i had a dollar for every "allegedly"...
nubbins`: i've had insane antihistamines
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It is an anesthetic, but more than anything exotic it has a good feel. If I was picking an antihistamine to be addicted to I'd probably go with mirtazapine.
mircea_popescu: dub i could swear they used it as antihistamine here in the 90s
dub: I've mainlined it recreationally, not a whole lot of fun
nubbins`: er yeah, that's what i meant
nubbins`: hell, i'm not having a cigarette this very moment
BingoBoingo: I'd have to say if I could choose which of the drugs I've tried to have an addiction to I'd probably want it to be Ketamine. That was fun. Coke was kind of fun, but bleh.
mircea_popescu: some of the girls smoke, for that matter. i sometimes join in over coffee, but i don't recall ever craving it
nubbins`: but i can't lay the blame fully on that
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: i did have fairly high stress levels during that period of my life
nubbins`: i just haven't had a cigarette in two years
mircea_popescu: maybe that's it, i don't stress enough to addict.
nubbins`: i'm still a smoker, and always will be
mike_c: i.e. your mind still remembers nicotine as a great way to relieve stress
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i have no fucking idea tbh.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Maybe this chemistry versus food thing continues across the Atlantic, and to things not entirely food. Or maybe I don't get enough pussy.
mike_c: physical addiction ends in.. 3 weeks i think
nubbins`: then why do i still get intense cravings for cigarettes when i see people smoking on tv?
mircea_popescu: this entire tobacco is addictive talk is hogwash. i've been smoking for about twenty years now, at the rate of about one pack a month
nubbins`: i like things way too much to ever try coke
mircea_popescu: actually i think you can't even find a "food supplement" that doesn't include it.
nubbins`: i've seen people add heaping spoonfuls of powdered glucosamine to bags of coke
mircea_popescu: you know, people who specify CRACKwhore make me thing ladyboys are a lot more popular than i imagine.
VanCleef: i met a crackwhore the other night at a nightclub
BingoBoingo: I'm guessing Bitcoin doesn't have an assassination market yet?
nubbins`: i misread
nubbins`: oh wait. i stopped when i had 100 points
TomServo: it does that well, I think.
KRS1: i am teh win
BingoBoingo: I'll just throw out it feels more like January 2013 than silk Road July (and to most people that should mean nothing, don't you cultivate your own personalized WOT's).
KRS1: oh i missed that ok
KRS1: I met him seemed ok..thats odd.
mircea_popescu: KRS1 i dunno about LorenzoMoney, he's been maligning my good name calling me a fascist science writer and stuff
nubbins`: i think they were talking about difficulty
phungus: I dunno
phungus: I am saying 500
mircea_popescu: anyway, curious if we're in for a rehash of july 2010. (vertical degree of magnitude wall, i think there were two consecutive 400% increases there)
KRS1: wouldnt want to..im working for my retirement so i can say FU and earn a few percent in the south caribbean somewhere.
mircea_popescu: dexX7 nope, i've never mined, i still am not mining.
KRS1: A while back i met Aaron the author of BAMT. He lives not far from me.
BingoBoingo: KRS1: That isn't too long of a drive. I just might have to retape my passenger side mirror on before I try returning to the Interstate Highways.
KRS1: I live in Florida near Miami.
KRS1: cool next month i get to start throwing my asic miners away..useless.
pgp: i wish charts like that were plotted against log10...
mircea_popescu: here, i'll trade you : "the writer here has something interesting to say and a few useful ways to explain it, but jesus if trilema hasn't completely fucking spoiled me for elegance and conciseness."
jurov: <phungus> [18:45:17] a Broker doesn't seem like it would help for listing << why not? it can help you, infact i'm already doing stuff to help namworld with this passthroughs ;)
dub: best size vs. longevity I could think of in 8 seconds
mircea_popescu: mod6 i'll tell you later, in the shape of a future nsa product :D
mod6: <dude> Your Honor, I swear I never sent those emails. <Judge> Sorry son, this spam has your key sig.
nubbins`: and on that note, i'm out
nubbins`: anyway, i gotta go prep for a zine workshop. peace
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i wouldn't take the judge job w/o gpg sigs.
nubbins`: i know right?
nubbins`: and so i'm left trying to decide just how greedy i am
nubbins`: but if i sit on them with the expectation that the trend continues, i risk losing out on potential gains as well
nubbins`: anyway, the dilemma is that if i sell this stack of btc now, i could lose out on potential gains if the trend continues to rise ☟︎
mod6: kakobrekla: i can't figure how those numbers are linear though
nubbins`: i'm having trouble deciding how greedy to be
mod6: i've been thinking about this chart lately: http://blockchain.info/charts/miners-operating-profit-margin << even after the rally, look where it is.
b0n1: nubbins`, because i think there is great potential after the opening
assbot: I don't give a shit who saw what and who did what or who did who.
nubbins`: i meant, why are you so interested in exporting a good from chins
b0n1: :) maybe i am
coingenuity: b0n1: i assume its nearly impossible
coingenuity: you can bribe them and get an export authorization, or so i hear
nubbins`: i'm picturing a Hiwatt with a built-in RNG
pankkake: nubbins`: exactly, and I already have tubes for my amp anyway ;)
nubbins`: "yeah, i need some tubes"
pankkake: I like vacuum tubes for the looks basically :p I'd buy that kind of random number generator
mircea_popescu: "Hey, Reddit, Ycombinator, and Metafilter readers! You know what, I'm proud that this article has become a benchmark, but I've written a lot of others I like too, some of them more recently than 2004. It would sure be nice if my other articles got some love instead of just this one being linked from a discussion every week."
nubbins`: hm. well, i guess if i was onto something here, it would've been figured out ages ago
asciilifeform: not my idea. attributed to johnny von n, but i was given it by my brother, who plucked it from an ancient soviet textbook.
asciilifeform: i did at one point, lost the code