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mircea_popescu: isn't it great that every hs drop-out / grocery packing specialist out there gets to judge the president and the supreme court justices ?
mircea_popescu: hilosophical conception of the constitution is pernicious."
mircea_popescu: from the "i'm a derp on the internet hear me roar" dept : "It is often noted that Barack Obama is an expert on constitutional law. That is better than the alternative, but it doesn't follow from that credential that he has a sound (or even benign) philosophical understanding of the constitution. Obama's credentials as a constitutional lawyer pale compared to those of Justice Antonin Scalia, for instance, and Scalia's p
mircea_popescu: also TIL MPOE-PR is 1.8687% of bitcointalk's scam accusationsboard.
mircea_popescu: who's to know, my hayseed was maybe drinking OmahaCola
mircea_popescu: " I hope you come to this year’s meeting, which will be held on May 20 in Omaha. There will be only one change: after 48 years of allegiance to another soft drink, your Chairman, in an unprecedented display of behavioral flexibility, has converted to the new Cherry Coke. Henceforth, it will be the Official Drink of the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform perhaps too advanced yet, but! suppose the thing actually MADE its own polymers
mircea_popescu: 4chan wisdom ("what was seen cannot be unseen") provides an amply useful philosophical framework
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually 8 legs is prolly ideal. in rough conditions legs are used for navigation, like a spider. on normal situations two legs are used as depth perceptive eyes
mircea_popescu: btw, i don't recall if i ever showed diametric my toy anti-fly plan ?
mircea_popescu: moiety just think, one could code that thing to bother cats
mircea_popescu: actually spider legs is probably the best solution for robots.
mircea_popescu: is this one ALSO a vc and entreprteneur who thinks himself well known ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose in its own contorted, braindamaged way, the left was preparing for the future.
mircea_popescu: they were housed somewhere at the time the clinton binge begun
mircea_popescu: it is equally unfair, and quite callous, to sign up for mortgages idiots whi ocan't afford them
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete i will take the other end of that view : it's unfair to make the blind the designated drivers of your bar hopping party
mircea_popescu: Here's something to quote at the Dr. Gregs of Bitcoin finance : "Inevitably, of course, business errors will occur and the wise manager will try to find the proper lessons in them. But the trick is to learn most lessons from the experiences of others. Managers who have learned much from personal experience in the past usually are destined to learn much from personal experience in the future."
mircea_popescu: gimmicks are fun for a computing project in computer class,
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete just generate entropy the traditional way.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it conveniently dots the screen, so no need for radio mouse
mircea_popescu: what they'd do is what they currently do in the shitty pits they inhabit (starbucks et atll)
mircea_popescu: "You have to work if you want a share of communal food"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im still digesting the earlier forum thing
mircea_popescu: "we need to go to each church and offer them contracts to not be churches any more"
mircea_popescu: o hey, we'll be just like the amish, except suckier and without tradition
mircea_popescu: "We actually hope to make a local restaurant and turn it into a national franchise"
mircea_popescu: "and if they make bigger bunker busters, we'll just pour more concrete"
mircea_popescu: "all rooves are poured rebared concrete 10 meter thick"
mircea_popescu: anyway, how would one design buildings to "withstand" direct military attacks ? use an abandoned salt mine or something ?
mircea_popescu: "we just called it the citadel because the outhouse was taken
mircea_popescu: and you can even use microcellular concrete or w/e you call it in english
mircea_popescu: except you also get the choice to make a brick-in-concrete pillars with poured concrete foundation and wood roofing house,
mircea_popescu: anyway, for the record, the same exact situation is the case in romania
mircea_popescu: how about my choice of not living in a carved up rock ?
mircea_popescu: "Your home will be built to your specs (details available at this website) with utilities stubbed to the interior. You select the facade for the exterior of your home. You are responsible for completing the interior of your home as you wish. You may choose to do the work yourself, or hire contractors. But every single detail, from paint to tiles to counters, is your choice."
mircea_popescu: HOUSING DETAILS: All homes will be built of poured concrete for exceptional strength and durability.