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nubbins`: "order me
a triple venti decaf 120 degrees skinny hazelnut wet latte"
nubbins`: "i'll have
a quad grande six pump vanilla one inch steamed breve Americano" is what
a cultured person says
mircea_popescu: it's "make me
a coffee so and so etc", which hey, ceo for drinks ?
nubbins`: "i'll have
a coffee" is what
a prole says
mircea_popescu: wait wait. so basically... they want to be me, except with something small that they can understand. it's not "build me
a thing so and so and back and forth", which is what execs do all day.
nubbins`: pankkake, the feeling of power than one gets from having
a very long-winded, very specific drink order plays
a part in this too
mircea_popescu: pankkake wouldn't all that be nullified by
a) it being free and b) you waiting in line ?
pankkake: from what I understand it's
a place you go to show how cool you are
nubbins`: you'd be surprised how many people have said to me "YOU CAN'T DO THAT YOU'LL GET SUED" after seeing some star wars parody shirts we printed for
a client
mircea_popescu: pankkake it's service, right ? the value of
a cup of coffee in and of itself is ~zero
mircea_popescu: nubbins` but
a tv i can see. some poor people save for
a tv.
pankkake: coffee is typically
a I WANT THIS NOW thing with me
nubbins`: who camps outside
a store for
a cheap tv?
mod6: cleaned it up
a bit. better rate if someone has mpex account and can receive btc through there.
gribble: #19541 Sun Feb 9 17:54:58 2014 mod6 BUY 100000.0 ATC @ 1.8e-06 BTC ((Want to buy up to 100,000 ATC for around 0.00000180 BTC each, ~0.18 BTC total. Smaller amounts ok too! Must have WoT rating. PM me, lets make
a deal!)
moiety: [71.43 think i will stop there.] ty, this is
a good example
moiety: ha that is
a neat little page
moiety: kk if you don't hear back from me, i jumped out the window at
a 1% score
mircea_popescu: hm. anyone have
a link handy to that number guesser asciilifeform made ?
moiety: i had started
a discussion point bot, to give people things to talk about so i didn't have to drag them through daily conversation so much
mircea_popescu: if you're not doing anything else, learning to turn
a new trick can only improve your street value.
mircea_popescu: irc bots are not that hard, you just get
a supybot to run and then learn to tweak it
moiety: of course she doesn't, she's been too busy locked in her room piling on the makeup or in
a hospital ward!
mircea_popescu: maybe she's just
a traditionally brought up girl that doesn't suck it, doesn't swallow and doesn't share her age
KRS-One: I'll try that next time..thought ozbot was
a dude.
KRS-One: if you are
a man and have some ribs removed you can give yourself oral..so the story goes.
moiety: yeah shehad
a couple removed she said once
moiety: it's not rare when you remove
a rib or two, no. Aside from that, it's her makeup that looks really out of place
mircea_popescu: it's not such
a rare body type for white eastern girls. pretty much the true caucasian type.
moiety: so you don't want me to give Valeria Lukyanova
a call then mircea_popescu?
mircea_popescu: post averted, i was just about to publish
a rant about how they jus' don
mircea_popescu: davout i guess you're right,
a large part of the problem was semantical anyway
davout: i just learned
a new english word, yay!
pankkake: left is
a giraffe with no boobs, right is
a trunk with no boobs
mircea_popescu: barbie is about 20. the average twenty year old is not built like
a flatbed truck
moiety: bonjour monsieurs, que quelqu'un
a dit tartan?!
mircea_popescu: and then
a few hours later you find dry earth in your hair and get all wtf
mircea_popescu: davout you know, maybe at some point you should consider acquiring
a compiler or build environment or something
KRS-One: Each user should have
a wallet that only they can access.
ThickAsThieves: Nothing is 100% secure. For this reason we bild our systems in layers preventing attackers from accessing data even if they are able penetrate
a system."
KRS-One: from what I saw of odesk it seemed like
a cesspool
mircea_popescu:
a. i bet you they don't whip them nearly enough and b. why the fuck aren't they doing this to white kids already.
mircea_popescu: i rue the day i'll end up in
a car filled with buttons labeled conveniently "easy" "simple" "fun" etc for my convenience.
mircea_popescu: punkman
a wonder they missed out on adding thc in there
mircea_popescu: . If it's not immediately clear to you why citizen banking is
a bad idea in general, I'd suggest paying the first person you can find who can draw
a flow chart of themselves, your torso, and
a scalpel to perform heart surgery on you; on the off-chance you survive, the recovery time'd make for good reconsidering.
mircea_popescu: "
A bank isn't something you start on
a whim after drawing
a doodle on
a napkin"
punkman: half my neighbours squatted on the land with shitty little houses, until they got
a proper title and sold off to someone that could build an apartment building
mircea_popescu: funny thing too : back before the alt explosion, the #1 "criticism" the general public had was "bitcoin is
a ponzi"
punkman: ponzi schemes need at least
a decade too
punkman: Mouser one the other hand is kinda nice, "You have purchased the following part number(s) from Mouser Electronics within the last two years. The manufacturer has published
a Product Change Notice. Please click on manufacturer part number to view product details and similar products for replacements."
punkman: Alibaba is such
a shithole. Every other day they send me this useless email "Shop the best deals & discounted items!!!!11lol!!"
mircea_popescu: Namworld that's not possible for
a strict reason of closeness.
Namworld: I was kinda hoping for
a ghost town large enough to have skyscrapers in disrepair.
mircea_popescu: squatters don't normally have money to buy anything in
a shop anyway, so it's even
mircea_popescu: they may not be very big, maybe
a square mile or two, but still
Namworld: I need
a ghost modern city I won't have to take
a plane accross the oceans to see in China.
Namworld: I hope Detroi becomes
a complete ghost town eventually.
benkay: Detroit isn't even
a proper city any more.
davout: i watched the original one
a week ago, it is amazing, the haircuts, the glasses, the music everything
benkay: i saw
a trailer for
a new robocop last night
BingoBoingo: This allowing people to bet on
a sure thing, but at
a loss was
a genius idea.
KRS-One: someone told me once about microdosing LSD...after
a while he spoke perfect German without learning..wtf? I am still thinking he was bullshitting.
mircea_popescu: then in due time you explain that the REASON you took the time trip is because the future sucks, and you are seeking your own mother in her youth to fuck her and so in causing
a singularity erase that sucky future.
benkay: "i'm doing
a survey on sexual practices. oh hey! you're right up my alley - come with me, i'm going to insert someone else in you."
mircea_popescu: you sign up to
a forum, under the pretense you are
a time traveller from the future. you establish this persona, more or less humorously but intelligently,
mircea_popescu: but anyway, since we're talking about recruiting, here's
a ploy i invented during dinner earlier :
KRS-One: Yes maybe thats
a better word?
benkay: don't know that that's
a calculation i really have time or interest in. sounds more like piles of time spent surveying that'd be better spent recruiting the surveyed into my bed
benkay: .bait is
a solitary activity, yes...
KRS-One: there is
a lot of gayness out there, in my .bait i find solitude.
benkay: having sex at all makes one
a fucking weirdo these days. more than one partner? you're at least three standard deviations out.
benkay: unless you have sex only in the missionary position you're
a fucking weirdo, mircea_popescu.
mircea_popescu: you kidding me, i'm like the one left rock of actual straightness in
a sea of you bicurious drug addled peeps!
KRS-One: not sure there is
a connection with intelligence