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danielpbarron: and yeah
the "detail expand" is
their disingenuous way of fluffing up
the "engagement" number
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron aha. seriously, if one sat down
to figure
the actual value of
these social media
things,
they'd be surprised how well
they line up with actual historical datapoints, such as "what slashdot sold for" etc.
mircea_popescu: so
twitter can do what, a hundred or
two of
these a day, and is consequently worth maybe half a million a year, gross ? over an expense account a hundred
times
that ?
danielpbarron: the 1.2k "clicks" were
to my
twatter profile
though.. so not nearly as good
mircea_popescu: "
The result was an onslaught of mentions so great
that it occasionally caused my iPhone
twatter app
to crash." << perhaps apple could ~literally~ wink wink nudge nudge buy russia ;
then make it crash now and again.
mircea_popescu: possibly.
the matter is confused in
the original sources.
danielpbarron: dumb cunt in
this context is already dead in
the spiritual sense
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron obviously, being a dumb cunt's way worse
than being dead.
davout: also bitbet's heart seems
to have started beating again
BingoBoingo: What do you
think all
those AIDS chairities are?
shinohai: If only
they still sold indulgences ...
BingoBoingo: Well, if
the idea made money before it is going
to get recycled
mircea_popescu: but anyway :
these seem fully built. not
that
there's anything wrong with buying little mass produced statuettes, it's how
the catholic church made half its money.
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu> and in other news, holy shit check out
the scam of
the future << sounds like a copy-cat of "warhammer" which I
think had a medieval
theme;
the figures come unpainted and you're supposed
to paint
them yourself. i
think
that's more of
the point as a little art project although i'm sure
the price is ridiculous
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu> incidentally
that was VERY MUCH a case of usistan vs iranistan << iranistan is
the actual name of a street around where i live, a word invented by pt barnum (the circus guy) who was
the mayor for a
time ; he wanted
to build his mansion on a street
that had an exotic sounding name.
The
thing has since burned down if i'm not mistaken, and
the street is now littered with
those getto style houses
that look like
they sho
mircea_popescu: next
they're gonna sell
these schmucks bitcoin mining kids in longhand. 95 dollar special pencil! has a bitcoin logo on it!
mircea_popescu: and in other news, holy shit check out
teh scam of
teh future :
http://infinitythegame.com/whatis.php << why not do all
the hard work of computing a rpg BY HAND! and pay 50 pounds per fucking figurine so you can paintakingly reconstruct all
the hard work of a gfx card by hand also!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you will prolly appreciate
the little bayestard murder gem i've produced:D
mircea_popescu: dude was srsly "oh we're
too intellectual property
to care"
mircea_popescu: incidentally
that was VERY MUCH a case of usistan vs iranistan.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-04 04:08 mircea_popescu:
two people have an argument and one gets really angry, police can fix
this. random derp gets overexcited
tries
to ship smoke detector shavings
to ex gf's mother, police can fix
this.
mircea_popescu: (yes, smegma does have some health benefits in some circumstances
that you're not likely
to encounter,
that nevertheless had a larger impact on history of life on earth
than anything you ever encountered conceivably could.)
mircea_popescu: the notion
that money buys security is not unlike
the notion
that smegma buys health.
pete_dushenski: alas, i must unfortunately be off again. will endeavour
to return soon. and for longer!
pete_dushenski: something like $4-6mn a year ? maybe not much, but more
than mp spends, likely
mircea_popescu: yeah, but
that was only half
the answer. rocket also delivers
the hsaped charge.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform note
that
they very carefully don't go places lenin went w/o a
thought.
pete_dushenski: gunports make plenty of sense, as does
the fact
that
tmsr will end up redesigning personal
transportation along with computing and everything else besides
mircea_popescu: "was naturally involved with
the prosecution with evil itself offering:" <<
this dun flow. "was naturally involved with
the prosecution:"
mircea_popescu: no idea why
they didn't go full
takn and add
the gunports, but w/e.
mircea_popescu: kinda died off with
the age of rocketry, bout late 90s.
mircea_popescu: also a large part of why diesel upscale cars were popular for so long. excellent
torque.
mircea_popescu: yeah. most upper line merc/lexus/what have you have
the engine and
torque
transmission etc optimized for armor even if you're not buying
the armor upgrade.
pete_dushenski: that'll slow you down more
than mysterious dedibox unpluggings
pete_dushenski: though really, what's wrong with being assassinated ? better
than irrelevancy in old age
pete_dushenski: still weird
that znort is awol. she has a key, why not provide updates here ?
pete_dushenski: i wish bbet would come back so i could bet on phuctor cracking a deedbot l2 key. seems like
the kind of
thing no one would expect, like ron paul
talking for 10 minutes or w/e it was
pete_dushenski:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-08#1464636 << a chunk of
this seemingly excess capacity is
to account for
two
things : a)
the obvious need for husky bodyguards
to accompany asian heads of state, and b)
the less obvious need for
the same platform
to accommodate
the optional hybrid battery pack
that weighs ~900lbs~ more and
takes up most of
the
trunk.
☝︎ pete_dushenski: 'boomtown' isn't growing at 10-20% per annum,
tis
true, but it's pretty resilient at
these oil price levels. $20 would be a massacre, $40+ is more
than liveable
BingoBoingo: Oh, you've
talked about
the "boomtown" in decline
thing going on
there for a while
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: lol i won't even
try
to guess what you
think i should
think about
the alberta wildfires, but it's pretty damn lulzy
to watch
the reigning socialist party flail impotently as
they attribute
the projected 1/3rd loss of ~the country's~ economic growth for
the quarter
to "karma" because "karbon"
danielpbarron: my node is nearly caught up although it seems
to always be ~200 blocks behind
mod6: <+ben_vulpes> browsers frequently pass newlines from forms as \r\n << werd
thanks for
the quick response :]
mircea_popescu: 2.15mn is not bad. punkman1 got anywhere with
the sr stuff ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, write it a nice 8ball expander
to keep adding primes and
that's
that, can let it be.
mircea_popescu: in completely unrelated lulz :
the "minimum description length community" (what ? dunno, ask
them) changed
turing's nit
to
to "nat", because why
the fuck not.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't illustrate all pressables
that are, but a sort of all pressables
that could ever be.
mircea_popescu: so if we're drawing and leaf Z requires a in state 3 and we're at state 4,
that's it for Z.
mircea_popescu: anywya : as
the graph progresses past
the antecedent of a leaf, it
therefore goes outside
the event horizon of
that leaf.
mircea_popescu: (event horizon is
the boundry whithin which phenomena can affect
the observer) <<
this is a much less intuitive, if
technically correct affirmative statement.
mircea_popescu: (event horizon is
the boundry past which phenomena can no further affect
the observer)
mircea_popescu: no need
to mix 19th century understanding of qm in shorthand statistical form at all.
mircea_popescu: ok, more practically speaking :
the graphatron is a visualizer of individual patches event horizons. how about
that.
mircea_popescu: ah, no, sh is
the equiv of entropy. "count of possible states".