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Vexual: im still grappling with the notation and a curry
BingoBoingo: Vexual: You seek to have a bishop aimed there, but nothing seems to be on that square to take
Vexual: sorry, im not googleing chess moves, its a tika masala
Vexual: i see, the first one was a typo
Vexual: and to think i was going to make a joke about horseys
Vexual: then you shall be white, if you don't mind a delay as i cook, i am ready
Vexual: i can olnly find a plastic set
BingoBoingo: I have a board set up already.
Vexual: i have to cook dinner and find a board
BingoBoingo: Why play at your actual level when fruit can play for you as a candidate master.
BingoBoingo: Vexual: If you insist on a screen chess.com isn't horrible though they are annoying
BingoBoingo: Vexual: I usually use a board
BingoBoingo: IRL: 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc5 is actually a rare thing. You have to prepare for the queen's gambit accepted while girding yourself for the slav.
Vexual: do you play on a board or screen via irc bingo?
BingoBoingo: I think those things are a saving grace of the game
BingoBoingo: Even te austrian attack onlyt has a 55% winnning percentage.
benkay: that one takes a minute.
BingoBoingo: There is a riht answer in the austrian attack.
BingoBoingo: I don't mind a brood if I don't have to help or the girl has an ass
benkay: i want a girl with a brain who can raise a brood.
BingoBoingo: I just want a girl with an ass that can drag me out of africa.
BingoBoingo: I have to say stupid was more fun though for quite a while.
BingoBoingo: I mean titties are good. It is just.... Easy to discount the rest of a girl's frame when you aren't yet aware titties come cheap
benkay: although my regret revolves around a brief brush with HTML and C that never turned into anything.
BingoBoingo: Yeah, I consider HS a time of regret though because I went from a 1 in a million girl with an ass to some rando bitch with a bit bigger titties and not that ass
benkay: stopped in at her crib on a trip to santa clara last year. still get along grandly.
BingoBoingo: benkay: Thank you 1997 is the exact year I am shooting for. Twas the year I found putting my index and middle fingers inside a girl could make a girl really happy.
BingoBoingo: Vexual: Isn't resolving that dilemma one of the central points of chess, or can't you resolve it without becoming a cuckolg
Vexual: i bet a mad max version would come in under 65bc
kakobrekla: seems he is away, i left him a message
Bugpowder: anyone know why there is a discrepancy between gribble and trading.i286 bid depth?
asciilifeform: i just like it as a photo 'pastebin' that isn't encrusted with turds
asciilifeform: (would have to be a chump to belive this, of course)
asciilifeform: little bugger was a stepper driver for x-axis rail
asciilifeform: i like to imagine that 'unsee' photos scroll across a giant tv at nsa (honeypot!)
nubbins`: that's a tricky hand-solder job
assbot: You cannot stop the clouds by the building of a ship.
mod6: "Put a little dash next to each one. Theymos likes dashes."
mod6: the ~27M share bid went away over a week ago.
Duffer1: probably, that's why i put 'price' in quotes because i'm hesitant to define doge as something that has a value
mircea_popescu: i dunno man. i am looking forward to when i'm very old someone finally figuring this shit out and writing a clever paper.
mircea_popescu: forza managed to anihilate his entire house in a generation by simply not knowing the difference.
asciilifeform: one russian writer, who grunted in a., opined that 'we were the kid that lifts the weight bar, pushes it up a little, then crushed underneath. afghan is a weight bar.'
mircea_popescu: basically our colonies, be their russia or the us, being a little new, still have to learn on own skin the history of medieval europe.
Duffer1: it seems like they created a debacle for the sake of being evil
mircea_popescu: war is always a game of "there's a limit of how much X you can bear"
mircea_popescu: but there's a limit on how much cost you can bear, which caps your results
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform only cheaper on a % basis.
mircea_popescu: the end result of a failure is not indicative of the absence of a plan more than of the poor quality of a present plan tho.
mircea_popescu: tyhere's a maximum bombing of convoys you can bear,
asciilifeform: surely they still have at least one working neutron bomb in a warehouse somewhere.
mircea_popescu: the only place where that works is fuckland, and fuckland a) doesn't care and b) is tougher than you and will fuck you.
mircea_popescu: this mega empire business is a momentary distraction.
asciilifeform: orlov is a reluctant, dour sort of 'statist', he sees mega-empires as inevitable, but likewise their collapse.
mircea_popescu: but no, he said the converse : unlike a fluffy casino, where they let you play, a proper casino takes your clothes and then makes you put out a show for their porn franchise.
asciilifeform: and then you say to a chum: 'unlike a proper casino, where the house keeps X, they...'
mircea_popescu: obviously the consumer thinks so, clearly visible i nthings such as "bitcoin must be a sort of supermarket payment option to really exist"
asciilifeform: it's more like: you go to a basement casino, and instead of letting you play, they club you over the head and take yer wallet
asciilifeform: since ussr never really had a working economy, economic collapse wasn't the apocalyptic disaster it would be in a civilized country.
asciilifeform: orlov's point wasn't that ussr was a paradise, but that it was a more honest sort of open air prison than u.s.
Duffer1: "Ideally, the initial transaction serves as the basis of a permanent arrangement, with the victim roped into an installment plan, which keeps the payments flowing even after the fuffle itself has crumbled into a pile of dust"
asciilifeform: so he might take a while.
asciilifeform: he lives on a ship, and doesn't have net access every day
mircea_popescu: a ty
Duffer1: this orlov article reads a lot like our discussion on real estate rent
mircea_popescu: so it didhave a casino on the top.
asciilifeform: because it was a straight tontine, without a casino in the loop
mircea_popescu: no, he says "transfer a percentage of earnings from working-age people directly to retirees"
asciilifeform: in orlov's world, a proper system is where you rely on family to feed you in old age
mircea_popescu: the question is, what sort of a fool contemplates the notion that direct transfer better, let alone proper.
asciilifeform: you can't touch it without massive penalty until you're a certain age
asciilifeform: they try to talk you into dropping some pre-tax pay into a 'fund', where it turns into stocks, etc
mircea_popescu: no but the other end. a proper system is bismarck's ponzi ?!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "Unlike proper retirement systems, which transfer a percentage of earnings from working-age people directly to retirees, this fuffled scheme takes these earnings and invests them in some fuffles" << do explain ?!
mircea_popescu: in the end, money is an expression of culture. the chase for money in se is not much unlike the making of worthless paintings as a "commercial venture".
benkay: avoiding social media of all sorts has made me a better conversationalist by giving me the opportunity to tell and retell a story or a pitch, refining it on based on each recipient.
mircea_popescu: and this story made me appreciate a major point.
asciilifeform: another servant goes on a bender
mircea_popescu: indeed. a secure asset of ever-appreciating value, who'd not want fuffel on his books ?
mircea_popescu: until one day, a young girl one has hired for the purpose of cleanning the house in between polishing the cock
mircea_popescu: and then in a couple months when he was building a new stable, his brother buys the painting back from him, at yet a heftier premium
mircea_popescu: returning the call, itzhak buys the painting back a few weeks later,
mircea_popescu: and so he buys it, in cash, for a hefty premium.
mircea_popescu: his younger brother hirsz, a respectable moneylender in the slightly larger small neighbourhood of Sucker's Lament visits one day
mircea_popescu: so as to not agress the public morals, itzhak upon living her house picks up a worthless old smoked over painting, and declares it to be the payment for the debt.
mircea_popescu: Itzhak is a respectable moneylender in the small neighbourhood of Fool's Crossing. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: this is a better model, they're not so much into socialism per se
mircea_popescu: did any newbie ever win a cell gambling ?
mircea_popescu: he has a point in that i suspect it's perhaps the easiest way to explain to the layman in laymen terms what exactly is the difference separating "me" or "us" from "them". teh fuffle readily makes sense or not at all.
mircea_popescu: it's not the language tho. it's the minds. language is but a cloth.
mircea_popescu: lmao! re your club orlov : i was persuaded to add a disclaimer to my article, which reads "but before you run to the interpretative races be advised that the “money” sybol is used correctly in its proper sense, rather than in what mistaken cvasi-definition you might have intuited for yourself, and this use colors the meaning of “time” too."
asciilifeform: 'my candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night; but ah my foes, and oh my friends, it gives a lovely light!'
mircea_popescu: hence why it took a \while for fuelbombs
mircea_popescu: but then i'm the guy worth a billion dollars, and if you add their loot all together, you don't get a billion.
mircea_popescu: the irony here being that if you take the list of 100+ scammers they - each and every one of them - were at some point "bigger than me", in a particular "media's eye" view of the table.
mircea_popescu: there we go, i'm happy with this model. it's a tuple.
mircea_popescu: capital can be good. minutious attention to irrelevant detail can also be good. both need a lot of central thinking to actualise their potential utility,
mircea_popescu: s naturally tries to use his relative advantage to defeat a problem, S equally so. together, they make a team. the alleged "theft" is nothing of the kind, teams reallocate resources all the time on common convention, which is hwat's happening here too.
mircea_popescu: for whatever reason, such as having a bad attitude to authority coupled with a duplicitous nature, he has managed to both escape re-education and avoid actually putting his mind to useful purpose.
mircea_popescu: and as a result learning fa for him is "learn all calculus from fractions onward", which is easily months of HIS time (it'd be a lot less time for someone a lot more literate, because of the way economies of scale work in matters of the mind. however, this is not him)