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mircea_popescu: mike_c i think the most peer review that's happened to date was me slapping around benkay's employees.
mircea_popescu: "And, the amazing thing to people like me... is that there are people that believe the nonsense they're being fed."
mircea_popescu: roughly equal to most of the english speaking "academia"
mircea_popescu: waiting for the 8,5 million articles retraction by 1-2k "social sciences" publications due to a 50k strong peer fraud ring.
mircea_popescu: basically twitter/reddit/etc are the most successful of these "scientific journals" things/.
mircea_popescu: well... that's one dumb wore ; perhaps not more than ANYTHING
mircea_popescu: "More than anything else he enjoyed spending time with his family at home and on his boat," the obituary said. "His brilliant mind, contagious smile, and warm embrace will be missed and cherished in memories by his friends and family."
mircea_popescu: Investigators took Tichelman's fingerprints from the wine glass, according to KGO-TV. An obituary posted in the Santa Cruz Sentinel describes Hayes as a husband and father to five children.
mircea_popescu: looks just like the "cultural center" of some obscure eastern soviet town
mircea_popescu: i lost an erection to the fact that chick went all "o look the ding dong" and then everyone spent the next half hour cracking up
mircea_popescu: pankkake isn't calling it a "ding dong" the lulziest thing ever ?
mircea_popescu: the difference between ram chips and ssd drives is mostly academic.
mircea_popescu: the trade engine doesn't really keep that much, plus, tons of memory and cpu, which i think helps.
mircea_popescu: it took half an hour and was complete long before yesterday.
mircea_popescu: (this actually happened a number of times, most recently about 3 days ago. i even said so, at the time)
mircea_popescu: pankkake there were two spares ready to go, and the rebuild is seamless, no downtime.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if it won't cost much, then it won't cost much to have them... not monitor the cameras, for five minutes.
mircea_popescu: pankkake this shit's supposed to take hotswapping for that matter.
mircea_popescu: benkay no, i just had a moment of drool at the thought someone somewhere is making me a dollie :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in the immortal words of pesto, that ain't gonna work.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> incidentally, this is what a 'clean' hit looks like. none of the nailgun nonsense. exec gets slightly more than his usual dose... << only works on stalin, and execs who actually do drugs.
mircea_popescu: <benkay> latin, ballroom, the classics, various kinds of combat << is this a woman you're raising here ?
mircea_popescu: at this rate being a camwhore will be more respectable than being a scientist within our lifetimes.
mircea_popescu: mptranslate : "the reason we're claiming the arabs are going down while they're clearly kicking our butts has nothing to do with [our] ideology and everything to do with SCIENCE! Honest!"
mircea_popescu: JorgePasada yeah, you can buy bitpay and other bitcoin ventures
mircea_popescu: decimation the solution obviously is, "make an ideology to which dissent is a self limiting condition"
mircea_popescu names decimation the new head of the secret service. order #1 : arrest all the dissenters so that the population remains > 0.
mircea_popescu: xerxes famously ordered the hellespont around, for that matter.
mircea_popescu: but the interface between sovereignity and productivity is iffy at best.
mircea_popescu: decimation so suppose i want to go down on her and she says her period started this morning. can i now order her to unperiodize herself ?
mircea_popescu: as an aside, mpex update : hardware changed and tested, os installed and failed. os reinstalled and failed. hardware retested and failed (!!!). hardware rechanged. tested, passed, tested, passed, os resintalled, tested.
mircea_popescu: decimation suppose i have a slavegirl. am i sovereign over her or aren't i ?
mircea_popescu: but mind that the eu was quite successful while it limited itself to imposing things like the euro1-2-3-4 car emission standards.
mircea_popescu: well because it's trying to solve problems that it has no business being involved in.
mircea_popescu: justusranvier lmao awww, and i didn't even get to sell any d.cbse
mircea_popescu: so you know... for all the conservative displeasure with the global government...
mircea_popescu: generally as cixi aptyl observed, capitalism is fucking loud.
mircea_popescu: decimation moreover, the market is provedly awful at allocating silence. london was nothing but a gray mist for most of modernity.
mircea_popescu: well... what if their parents didn't ? what if it's the united states of chimpanzees ?
mircea_popescu: "i don't have to beat them personaly but merely remind them of how their parents beat them"
mircea_popescu: decimation that "self restraint" is your circular way of begging violence
mircea_popescu: lemon band is playing awfully badly, so you pay them 20 mn to stfu
mircea_popescu: mike_c suppose you're in a restaurant with a chick you're trying to impress.
mircea_popescu: there's no way to resolve the silence dispute without recourse to violence.
mircea_popescu: if you don't like it you keep your pear and i keep my silver.
mircea_popescu: negotiation is, "i'll give you this silver for that pear"