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mircea_popescu: <chetty> asciilifeform, forget the gasenwagen you'll get a nice little lab to build toys (with bars of course) << the special wagenb :D
mircea_popescu: "our strategy is to win by covering everything in plastic"
mircea_popescu: (you know, the folk who know how to kite duel and cut wires ?)
mircea_popescu: "the amazing technicolor rainbow suit. more effective than kevlar!"
mircea_popescu: " for use against incoming rockets, artillery and mortar strikes" the man said.
mircea_popescu: it's quite obviously there to protect the us spy ships from their own drones, which apparently the chnese are mostly lifting
mircea_popescu: i have nfi why they imagine it'll be useful against "rockets" and mortar shot.
mircea_popescu: the funny part here being how the line of the us agitprop was "o laser can't hurt our drones" for as long as it took em to finally get a laser mounted on a truck.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves ;;rate ben_vulpes 2 Met IRL for drinks and neither of us murdered the other << lol neither of you strike as teh murderin' kind
mircea_popescu: technology keeps empowering betas to be weird thus pissing women off
mircea_popescu: A young lad who climed up in a tree was stung in the balls by a bee.He then made oodles of money by oozing pure honey every time he attempted to pee.
mircea_popescu: and then she went under as 90% of that was returned within another week
mircea_popescu: at some financial risk. but then her worries were rest at ease when > 25% of stock sold within a week
mircea_popescu: i recall this particularly instructive event when derpy noob woman started her own couture brand & shop
mircea_popescu: punkman afaik that's how 90% of white women uder 30 shop for clothes.
mircea_popescu: in costa rica, the wonderbread supplier is called BIMBO
mircea_popescu: punkman true story : one of the cab companies in timisoara is called "bimbo vest"
mircea_popescu: "you know what'd be best for you ? if after a long harrowing day you get to worry about thge weather and take off stressed in the dark"
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike_c hey is the wol chainwatcher behind on blocks ?
mircea_popescu: the entire fucking thing is basically cargo-cultism trying to re-enact the sounds of scania. somehow.
mircea_popescu: and now you know more of business than virtually any business major in the continental us.
mircea_popescu: not people but things, nevertheless things have their own substance too. they exist.
mircea_popescu: however, we know better right. so why did the fish regularly engage in a behaviour which the other party considered suicidal ?
mircea_popescu: moving on : as far as the at-the-time humans could tell, the fish were "a gift from god", who ordered them to surrender to human interest.
mircea_popescu: but that every single other step was always althrough history equaly conveniently "just as long as the baby's shins"
mircea_popescu: making it thus possible for stable solute temperatures - althrough in principle there's no absolute reasons requiring this fortuitous coincidence life requires absolutely
mircea_popescu: conveniently, salt was very easy to mine, and the process to cure very simple. it never ceases to amaze anyone who seriously studies anthropology not that water is conveniently a universal solvent AND AT THE SAME TIME has a huge caloric capacity,
mircea_popescu: this created a cheap source of protein as well as incentives to industrialise, because salt was needed to cure the meat so it kept.
mircea_popescu: was this peculiar behaviour of fish, to congregate in this particular spot up north, to the point they got so thick you could fish with a sword.
mircea_popescu: the reason the hansa existed, as a basis for german style civilisation and the fundament of what was later dutch (and, after the blodless dutch conquest of britannia, english commercialism)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you familiar with premedieval economy in the north of europe ?
mircea_popescu: i have nfi why that bet is so lopsided on yes. for that matter, there could very well be a single block retarget before oct.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform to give the usg the false impression that its idiocy may work ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony decided ah what the fuck, i can't sell this btc for paypal, might as well dump it on gambling.
mircea_popescu: well that means your brain's not fallen to sclerosis yet :D
mircea_popescu: "find a business model where you don't need to ask or you don't have a business"
mircea_popescu: "We appreciate you being" did this get accepted meanwhile ?
mircea_popescu: i don't mean from a "you run off with monyz" perspective, loath. i mean "paypal=assholes not keep that much there" perspective.
mircea_popescu: nah, there've been cases where paying acct got locked.
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> i wanna complain to the bitcoin CEO. <<< satoshi is dead son.
mircea_popescu: decimation blind people being able to do something with themselves other than mope isn't such a bad thing
mircea_popescu: "mp's gallow" it should be called. Γ << launch from there.
mircea_popescu: if it can't take off you just drop 3 meters and spend a month in casts for your sins
mircea_popescu: you know, it occurs to me, all these small single engine planes should be only launched upside down from like 3 meters. by law.
mircea_popescu: i can throw a rock off a tall building and it'll spoend some time in the air too, that doesn't make it an airplane.
mircea_popescu: forget the electronics, this isn't a question of electronics in any sense. this is a question of fucking foil in flow.
mircea_popescu: legitimate my foot and who the fuck would fly that. good call TheNewDeal
mircea_popescu: "Normally a single-engine airplane has to be spun as part of the certification process. The Cirrus wasn’t. The FAA waived this requirement and accepted the airframe parachute as an alternate means of compliance. I kid you not, the spin recovery in a Cirrus is based on deploying the chute. That is the only way a pilot can recover from a spin in a Cirrus."
mircea_popescu: ie, sold not as an expensive and dangerous toy, but as a commuting tool.
mircea_popescu: because you just can'tg keep it in the water , and they know it