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mircea_popescu: well, if you can't see it, send me your ip and you too can be whitelisted!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so is this qntra down thing actually ? cuz i still see it...
mircea_popescu: i suppose one could put their bed on a gravimeter, the evaluate the fucking quality
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> what, you don't have your duets locked down? << can you explain this to the innocent ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c: some do. google bot runs JS. << last i heard it was buggy as hell
mircea_popescu: i don't share the power rangers' suspicions of Werner Koch.
mircea_popescu: it could be one of those annoying chicks trying to impede sexual congress with their "friends" at parties ?
mircea_popescu: (a cockapede, being, of course, a creature walking on its cocks)
mircea_popescu: your pauses are pregnant like a thousand cockapedes fucked them raw.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03:you have potential for the stage my man << he has a point, you know.
mircea_popescu: so bookshop owner also had a mechanic shop and the two were next to each other but the later was in argentina ?
mircea_popescu: dja know how you'd distinguish the brothel and the campus housing in Krivoy Rog ?
mircea_popescu: you know the sort of blowjobs you'd get in moscow for a pair of jeans, cca 1993 ?
mircea_popescu: dude, i expect the world out of 100 years of communism.
mircea_popescu: they can't cook, they can't fuck and they think they somehow matter.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i still don't know why anyone in his right mind would go to that stinky, crowded, desperate shitstain of an island.
mircea_popescu: JorgePasada me coming here, "where are you going to stay ?" "no idea" "you know i have to put something in the machine ?" "recomend a good hotel ?" "x" "wut ?" "X!" "write it down wouldja" guy gives me a postit. "ok, so that's where i'll be staying".
mircea_popescu: this trend where us folk are charged to leave their ghetto (pioneered by argentina, of all places) is going to only grow.
mircea_popescu: JorgePasada which is why it'd be the perfect argument for divine comedy.
mircea_popescu: and it turns out it's a ... tungsten rock, with a few milimeters of gold on top
mircea_popescu: the lulz of all time, of course, is if someone finds a ten or fifty cubic kilometer solid gold meteorite in the ice sheet, however deep
mircea_popescu: anyway, meteorites are mostly iron-nickel, much like the eart hand everying else in the solid range
mircea_popescu: a pure gold meteorite is about as likely as a prostitute with a heart of gold
mircea_popescu: maybe some trace li. yet all obseved ones have metals in them. so, must be end products of something else.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla not necessarily. here's the catch : they evolve slowly, and our models would require them to have no metals
mircea_popescu: otherwise you just get a jupiter, aka gas giant. not a star, but a planet.
mircea_popescu: but in fact stuff past nickel/iron requires a supernva.
mircea_popescu: it's kinda funny, the ancients thougt the sun and gold are cosubstantial.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla no, because oil is locally made. gold was not made on earth, nor by the sun.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> at any rate, the biggest problem with hoarding gold is the fact that you really have no idea how big your enemy's hordes are << actually, yes, the total gold on earth is known within reasonable precision. one of the few proper fields of statistics.
mircea_popescu: (contrary to common belief, a ton of gold isn't that impressive a pile_
mircea_popescu: <decimation> asciilifeform: agreed. unfortunately, unlike the blockchain, very few have personally witnessed a real gold stash << actually, romanian central bank holds ~112 tons currently, you can pay ~15 bucks and go on a tour
mircea_popescu: pretty much the only thing it can do is stay where it "is"
mircea_popescu: <assbot> German Gold Stays in New York in Rebuff to Euro Doubters - Bloomberg <<< well the problem there is that it;s damned hard to move something that doesn't exist.
mircea_popescu: suppose you carried actual cutlery. you can carry it back the same way. many problems actually solved.
mircea_popescu: decimation yeah, ok, but look at it. what do you do with the leftovers ? do you throw them out on the spot ?
mircea_popescu: under the umbrella of the Ghee Kung Tong, identified by the feds as a de facto Chinese mafia organization. Chow begs to differ: “My organization is not what they call a secret society,” he says. “People misunderstand—it’s not a secret. It’s a private self-help group, helping people, our people. It’s about loyalty, trust, honor. As the chairman, it’s my job to help people.”
mircea_popescu: the common cold is the most common disease. it is not the "largest" nor the most important disease.
mircea_popescu: "The need to obtain, install, and manage certificates from that bureaucracy is the largest reason that sites keep using HTTP instead of HTTPS. " <<< most common != largest.
mircea_popescu: "Today EFF is pleased to announce Let’s Encrypt, a new certificate authority (CA) initiative that we have put together with Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, IdenTrust, and researchers at the University of Michigan that aims to clear the remaining roadblocks to transition the Web from HTTP to HTTPS."
mircea_popescu: cazalla she might know more than you about how to deal with such things
mircea_popescu: whereas to the counterparty, those oppressing them : you could probably switch to "man and homan".
mircea_popescu: i propose euman as the term. it's different from human in that it's BETTER!
mircea_popescu: by the way, any transhumanists of the future reading this, secretly in their secret coven while being grieviously oppressed by an unrelentingly ignorant society :
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Well this whole Jesus thing has kind of been a huge bummer for Western civilization ever since the Romans started taking it seriously <<< it happened as the very complex roman religions were brought closer to the understanding of teh plebs.
mircea_popescu: puritards, i swear... they're worse than the catholics.
mircea_popescu: but in fact, considering pedigrees, that's exactly what the antecessor of this was huh.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: and the rawlsian lottery is presumed to include only them <<< ahhh, excellent point re the "inner light" stuff. it wasn't directly apparent,
mircea_popescu: i still can't shake the same bemused, "wait, did the monkey srsly just try to shoot me with a stick" disbelief whenever confronted with it, to this day.
mircea_popescu: out of which she even has like, expectations, not to mention thinks it victorious in principle and afore the fact, like calling the name of god or something.
mircea_popescu: it took me a coupla passes until it sunk in that the woman actually is seriously presenting this as some sort of an argument,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: that is, 'slavery is bad mmkay because what if you were a slave' << lol i remember an encounter with this in kindergarten. substitute whoever attacked some longstanding privilege of mine that i meanwhile forgot with the totally unexpected "can't do that, because what if all the other kids want it too ?"