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mircea_popescu: Adlai: oh durban. another friend got deported from there... this appears to be the national pastime for my age group << how da fuck do you get deported FROM durban
mircea_popescu: cazalla can you explain that 4plebs img thing ? i dun have the context.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla so how much did you save your investors by closing the thing by now ? 5% ?
mircea_popescu: a olook at that. seekingalpha sends me a popup with no close button
mircea_popescu: jesus this seeking alpha bs... let's make a derpy article 14 pages long so everyone reding an article does 14+ clicks
mircea_popescu: from what i gather it's mostly a real estate play by now. sort of catholic church
mircea_popescu: wfc is purely symbolic, just an ombillicum to daddy govt
mircea_popescu: what is he even holding, i forget. chewing gum, hfcs water and what ?
mircea_popescu: ie, who, what and how much is acceptable to download. well behaved robots honor it. google does.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski robots.txt is by convention a file which describes the site owner's view on robots
mircea_popescu: `jurov`: weird. clicked on comment, again 404 << sounds like some weird yet elusive dns issue.
mircea_popescu: i guess so, even though... how's the interview of a bagholder supposed to go ?
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: just do money exchange desks << this is exactly what i'm doing.
mircea_popescu: assbot: The Great Robocoin Rip-off <<< eagerly awaiting the qntra write-up because docs.google is too js-y for me.
mircea_popescu: ;;rate Vexual 1 he don't do time, for ain't no one here got time for that.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski myeah. also, wp plugins are generally trouble
mircea_popescu: ;;rate Vexual he don't do time, for ain't no one here got time for that.
mircea_popescu: Vexual: big first week huh? << huge, but apparently it's a 2nd week.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski not really odd on a new and rapidly growing site.
mircea_popescu: Adlai: automated extraction of 3d movements from professional porn and cloud-based rendering of your nudes in their place? << o.O
mircea_popescu: prolly has a can the size of dry protein economy packs.
mircea_popescu: and for the record, i routinely use 200W incandescents etc.
mircea_popescu: i don't think i've ever lived in a room small enough that the lighting fixtures made a noticeable difference.
mircea_popescu: "how about that, people are winning a war and they're fucked up"
mircea_popescu: did you mean to ask "why do you think the alternative won't work" ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla the wonderful world of computing is becoming dangerous for people able to think on their own.
mircea_popescu: <bounce> just out of idle curiosity, why the preference for tungsten? <<< goes with the preference for emacs. old thing proven to work well.
mircea_popescu: <punkman> "hello I want a 60watt bulb" "here take this 7 watt stealth CFL, same thing" << lol yup. commerce now meas bait and switch apparently.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> the one, the only, the inimitable! << now reimplement it in gaskell.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes just so you know, i'm writing an article because of you.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves what is it that they were calling it, "a war something or the other"
mircea_popescu: yet something tells me the recent beheadings aren't excesses, but merely the early drops of a coming avalanche.
mircea_popescu: and you know, everyone's hope is that they will live for long enough in a pile of goop made out of copies of themselves big enough that they won't ever have to go face to face with those "evil sociopaths" and "trolls"
mircea_popescu: because a bunch of asswipes are pushing out insecure code, and because a bunch of imbeciles heart those assholes,
mircea_popescu: the best makework the devil ever invented. beats the shit out of painting rocks white then turning them over
mircea_popescu: the entire "shit in your mouth and think about how you're not" thing definitely manages to keep a bunch of intelligently stupid folk busy.
mircea_popescu: CME Site use GMT-5. CME Charts use GMT-4. << lmao the shit bitbet admin has to put up with
mircea_popescu: it was written in either algol or cobol i forget, and was supposed to be a big deal for rich hippies in the 70s
mircea_popescu: there was this first pass of algoreism, "golf club" patternism and all the rest of the retardation
mircea_popescu: you're not old enough to be talking of that "limits to growth" retardation
mircea_popescu: a discussion of casts is entirely spurious. the problem's the approach.
mircea_popescu: guy in the hospital. adlai talks to doctor : this dude should get casts. casts are cool. doctor to adlai : did you see his xrays ? adlai umm... no. but casts are cool.
mircea_popescu: are they supposed to work just like that, in principle, don't even need to know what you're suggesting about or anything ?
mircea_popescu: i'm not. i'm instead kloinking you over the head for the add-water-and-stir suggestion dust you got.
mircea_popescu: wasn't i reading a bevy of suggestions from you above tho ?