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mircea_popescu: the risk of paying for walls : you may end up associated with the hobo pissing on them
mircea_popescu: in george's words, "bear in mind we at least paid to spraypaint a crackwhore!"
mircea_popescu: here i sit crushing my and every expert's brain as to why the fucking hell of fuck does bitbet aff not take off
mircea_popescu: suppose im a merchant that just sold 10k btc worth of fresh salmon, am i fucked nao ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: tesla's apparatus was briefcase-sized. and, according to rumour, the experiment has been replicated since. but, to no one's great surprise, the data in open literature is very scarce. << thatthing's like the water engine imo.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: it has minimum of 8.0 Mw. that would be impressive if manmade. << impressive ? if an 8.0 earthquake were man made i doubt we'd still have computers left tobitch about things.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony congrats on media whoring. can you offer text summary for the audio patience challenged ?
mircea_popescu: in things such as surviving a dose of xrays, it's counterintuitively your length more than your area that matters at subcellular level
mircea_popescu: “Alibaba is the fastest-growing Internet company in one of the fastest-growing economies in the world,” said Sameet Sinha
mircea_popescu: because the male chromosome sucks and is larger and derpier
mircea_popescu: this, because cosmic rays kill the weaker male making sperm
mircea_popescu: it's well known that airplane pilots tend to father girls
mircea_popescu: it further hurts later conceptions because of the inside the womb radiation
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform to a large degree, it hurts the fetuses, not the kids-to-be-born later
mircea_popescu: for the ovule to manage to come out it needs to pass a bunch of checks.
mircea_popescu: so you'll still be ovulating, esp as a young woman, no matter the dose.
mircea_popescu: if you get blasted by ionizing radiatiopn, some will die
mircea_popescu: moreover, looky here : suppose you are a woman, for some reason. you are born with all your sex cells.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> once you see the flash, gonads are well-done << this is quite not true, actually.
mircea_popescu: i guess the ideal underdesk packing would be butt, head, then torso atop and limbs atop that
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform seems that way to me. you'd want your butt over your head, not your head over your butt
mircea_popescu: "At that point I took all the phones away and we had a little reminder chat about when it was appropriate to use your phone and when it was not. Also that it was rarely appropriate to hide under the table." chetty check this out : no longer appropriate to hide under desk in the us school system.
mircea_popescu: anyway, stupid for spaceball to not market itself as "magic wand"
mircea_popescu: i imagined surely they must have smartphone accelerometer as an interface
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo iirc he said something or the other about some stadium accident. beautyon has the story.
mircea_popescu: but teh beating of single digit aged ppls is dysfunctional.
mircea_popescu: i mean, i think we know i'm no priss, and so im not speaking from some locus of nonsensical ideology.
mircea_popescu: children are born cowardly, if your preschooler can't be controlled by scowling you need to work on your warface.
mircea_popescu: but a garbageman does something useful. a kindergarten teacher perhaps, some places. NOT in ussr, and not in ussa tho. most emphatically not.
mircea_popescu: "Today was the first day in a long time I actually took phones away. I have no idea what all was included in the update, but you would have thought it was crack. They seriously could not keep away from it. I even had one girl crawl under the table with her phone."
mircea_popescu: twitter : "25 hedge fund managers earned more than double every kindergarten teacher combined. But who created more value?" mp : "Definitely no kindergarten "teacher" ever created any value. Just trying to claim the workings of nature for themselves."
mircea_popescu: MP : The point of womanhood is for the woman to start a new life, as a new person, once she sexually matures.
mircea_popescu: it'd seem to me the principal utility of ripple these days is so that banking idiots who wish to spend longer with their head in the sand can pretend like they're not.
mircea_popescu: "Join me & meet the old & new in payments (@AmericanExpress, @Visa, & @RippleLabs)"
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mircea_popescu: i'd have to spend weeks with recordings of ethnology and folklore to listen for the double n construct tho, and i obviously have not the time for it.
mircea_popescu: and moreover, why the d is rendered as n in a double n, wtf, this isn't even a documented consonant migration afaik
mircea_popescu: if it's indeed arrendar, one's to explain how the hell vulgar latin yielded the same thing in south italy and in south spain
mircea_popescu: but look at the beauty of what is (could be) in a word :
mircea_popescu: fluffypony im kinda after the root of that arrenne magical word. i'm pretty sure it's neither to forget nor to be.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: 'bb' caliber cannons. or, alternatively and more simply, rams. << i remember watching a rather interesting "electricity stealing" competition among some flying items a few years ago.
mircea_popescu: "oh this opressive government and the fucking courts which we can say we live in a tyrannical tyranny!11"
mircea_popescu: *suit gets rejected for lack of venue, failure to state a claim, failure to file and failure to fail*
mircea_popescu: "well perhaps you should sue ?" "ok." *files suit against "someone"*