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mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: follow-up thought on "cats don't love". Do babies love? << no. this is well studied, first they consume, then they deject, then they love.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's a scratch on the surface, the intuitions i suspect largely correct, but one could really go into a lot more detailed analysis on the topic. probably with the tools of the psychiatrist or antropologist.
mircea_popescu: ziggamon: curious about your feedback, been lurking around here and your blogs << i had nfi one could write on tumblr.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: well i'm just contrasting, two ways to write a bullshit article << word.
mircea_popescu: no, they're not "our" credit cards they're stealing, they're ~the bank's~. and no, it's not because "vulnerabilities in software". it's because instead of waiting on every word here, the banks in question pay off twerps to pretend.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: "Upgrading encryption software might mask communications for al-Qaida temporarily, but probably not for long, Schneier said. << schneier is such an unmitigated twerp.
mircea_popescu: punkman: I thought unplugged laptop on shelf would be safe < you know you can actually calculate the induced current as a function of speed, field and the conductors in question.
mircea_popescu: if magnetism was a chick, the only thing we'd know about her would be that it interacts with the cock (ie, electric field)
mircea_popescu: magnetism is by far the least understood macrophenomenon.
mircea_popescu: ok, no cali is one thing. no ruler ?! what do you mean by "shop" ?
mircea_popescu: cut strip of lined paper, put it around tube, divide by pee.
mircea_popescu: now someone wanted to see what white meant, days ago. well this is it. the ideology of early feudal lords.
mircea_popescu: im not saying the female pov is illegitimate, merely unfortunate.
mircea_popescu: let her cry her heart out and make a better one next time, i say.
mircea_popescu: technical solutions for problems that should never be solved.
mircea_popescu: but the woman in question wasn't happy with the idiocy control. so as a result... the guy wouldn't impregnate her anymore. and here we are.
mircea_popescu: so now here we go : they had no bc there, and as an indirect but quite certain consequence, that cowpoke'd have given any woman as many kids as she could carry.
mircea_popescu: A dusty cowpoke at his side began to laugh him down [...] But the stranger drew his gun and fired before he even saw.
mircea_popescu: but hey, it's the way nature usually hits one over the head. they want to live in a world where men don't kill their kids, no matter what. turns out that can be built, but the cost is they can also never be happy.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: punkman: Depends on how big the event is where the laptop is, and whether it is plugged in. << not really. plug your laptop into 110kv, the transformer wil blow, maybe the power entry will blow, the hdd won't blow.
mircea_popescu: The law stipulates the establishment of a ‘Social Solidarity Fund’ as part of the organisational structure of the Community Development Authority (CDA) with aims to enhance cooperation among society members and provide social welfare for eligible Emirati families.
mircea_popescu: His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE, in his capacity as the Ruler of Dubai, has issued Law No. 7 of 2012 regarding social benefits for UAE nationals in Dubai.
mircea_popescu: punkman: ahaha just figured it out, it's from the government's "social solidarity fund", no idea why I qualify for that shit << because you're poor!
mircea_popescu: (implying a man may look good but could never smell good)
mircea_popescu: punkman: yes my bank is gonna give me a different IBAN just for Paypal << that's lulzy. srsly, tell the bank some script indian said iban is ambiguous. maybe you need a new ipban
mircea_popescu: i guess either the guy accidentally let it slip and threatened them to sue, or else it was dumbass copy and the editor fixed it.
mircea_popescu: " In June, U.S. Marshals auctioned off Bitcoins seized from Silk Road, the online market for illegal goods and services. Draper bought the lot for $20 million, beating out 44 other bidders."
mircea_popescu: it's also mildly useful for crooked hedge fund mangers to explain to their half smart moneyed audience why exactly it is that i can make any % i want and they can only make a % that's two digits no matter what happens.
mircea_popescu: anyway, for the record, "volatility drag" is an artefact of the poor public school system in the us. the only reason it exists is that people do arithmetic rather than geometric %s. in other words, they don't compound.
mircea_popescu: events aren't really to be explained is the thing. what are you goint to explain ?
mircea_popescu: i've not put out a scam tag on it if that's what you';re asking.
mircea_popescu: A savvy young hooker named Gail got busted and lodged in the jail. But the jailer got hot to be lodged in her twat, and so Gail made the bail with her tail.
mircea_popescu: decimation re bloomberg, damn anti-intellectualism is (still) going strong in that country.
mircea_popescu: they may cry, but it wouldn't be over the internets not uploading, srsly.
mircea_popescu: Sergio Antonio (@SergiConte) July 30, 2014 fuck you @examsoft i've been crying for two hours. i'm not even fucking kidding right now this is the worst night of my life. <<< supposedly adult us male.
mircea_popescu: because yeah, that's the right thing to do when mp says you';re stupid, come out with an "there have been some implications that we're stupid from some people that don't understand us"
mircea_popescu: then various twerps derp about "upholding contracts" in mises.org, and when i call them too smart by half they nervously BUT ANONYMOUSLY address it
☟︎ mircea_popescu: they wish they had it, they like to pretend like they have it, but they don't actually.
mircea_popescu: im impressed with their not being quite ready to go home yet. various other twerps with delusions of historical importance (france, say) don't have it.
mircea_popescu: decimation> I can see why default is the most attractive option here << it is quite as the local elite presents it, a matter of "fuck you or else we might as well go home."
mircea_popescu: "The point the op was making is that adoni has mega millions in assets yet all their people posting here get negative ratings from broke losers mad they have no mega million dollar assets to dicuss deals on." << check it out, teh tortilla got moar competition.