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mircea_popescu: somewhat relatedly, most people don'
t figure they have ANY authority. therein included, the authority to decide what to do with themselves at any point (gotta be in school in half hour! shiot im late for job interview! omg office hours!) or for that matter what to believe.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: the same rationale behind why there is no "sane computer" thread. i.e. dumbness is institutionalized. so wouldn'
t useless students be merely a symptom of this?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform can'
t really experiment with the other kind however ; an tomes lie. not by design but in effect.
thestringpuller: you can'
t get "marketing" STEM degree in USA. that is degree is more of advertisement for self, that bears no real meaning.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: a classics education always beats a stem << this doesn'
t get undergrad children jobs in the US. interesting though, that having gotten a stem education, i feel extremely deprived of not having studied as many classics
mircea_popescu: i don';
t recall when that was, they had like a week maybe ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform exactly why i don'
t argue for "make america great again" but "burn it all down"
mircea_popescu: otherwise this quickly becomes the greek argument, "we borrowed and spent but shouldn'
t have to repay because hey, new government!"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo eh, pre 1800s the russians hadn'
t yet been invented in europe. was all polish.
mircea_popescu: and in ww1, there was proper ro army alright. there wasn'
t proper ru army, though, lenin's idea was to a) abandon the allies front and b) go "wee wee please don'
t beat us up mr european powers sir"
mircea_popescu: ru didn'
t stand up so well to ro army for most of war.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i dun get it, doesn'
t paypal charge like a buck or so fixed fee ?
mircea_popescu: sure nadja can keep up with me, but that's only because i suck ; she can'
t keep up with boris from her hometown.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller women, too, because fucking equalitards omit to mention to girls how they really can'
t keep up with dudes.
mircea_popescu: and the problem with this theory is that us media, unlike everyone else who's sane, won'
t carry nudity.
mircea_popescu: us restaurants don'
t work like this - consequently, loyalty is impossible.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller there a) is no such thing as loyal customers and b) no conceivable reason restaurant would care. which is why they don'
t even bother to keep lists.
thestringpuller: given bitcoin is anti-consumer, marketing doesn'
t have an immediate value because any sane business should not care about what the consumer thinks
mircea_popescu: kinda in line with the diy ethos of the rest of computing. you want to be secure ? you're better off taking out the holes than "hiring a team of experts". whatever you want - take it, don'
t ask.
Joshua-I: They didn'
t just permit it, but were studied in it, which in the cases of their private residences and gardens suggests the opposite of what you suggest at the end there
mircea_popescu: eedom to give us all their shit for free, and romania really didn'
t need a nuclear activities agency",
mircea_popescu: wouldn'
t go as far as need ; but this is what it's for if you have it.
mats: no endorphins moving around, no sense of the thing inspires a sense of awe or beauty in me, i literally don'
t feel anything
mod6: umm guess it wasn'
t a year or two, more like 5. lol. 2011.
mircea_popescu: mats ~nobody finds it funny that didn'
t know 5`000 various idiots that, if brancusi'd, end up beavis and butthead.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, corn output doubled since the 80s/90s. it can'
t be said agro tech hasn'
t improved.
mod6: <+covertress> don'
t you want some? <+shinohai> my sides << omg yes. lol.
Joshua-I: If you need it that safe lock is reasonable, if you don'
t then what do you care
Joshua-I: I hope they don'
t make elevators lmao
Joshua-I: In combination with wot I don'
t think it's half bad though
a111: Logged on 2016-07-07 22:46 pete_dushenski doesn'
t like baked potatoes, can'
t stand mashed potatoes
a111: Logged on 2016-07-07 22:14 pete_dushenski: "In 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated that a middle-income American family is likely to spend $234,900 to raise a child born in 2011 to age 17. If the kid goes to college, that figure may double." << though half a mil on a sjw you couldn'
t bring yourself to kill would suck the life force out of a sultan.
pete_dushenski: so of course, "don'
t beat them, they're people too" persists. it's self-perpetuum-immobile!
pete_dushenski: "In 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated that a middle-income American family is likely to spend $234,900 to raise a child born in 2011 to age 17. If the kid goes to college, that figure may double." << though half a mil on a sjw you couldn'
t bring yourself to kill would suck the life force out of a sultan.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: here's something for the historian in alf! there's ancient statement of the principle, recorded in 1970 milwaukee journal : "You make yourself ridiculous by thinking you can do anything. The word is divided in two. The Russians and the Americans, no one else. What are we? Americans. Behind me there is the government, behind the government is NATO, behind NATO is the US. You can'
t fight us, we are Americans."
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: not that a) i can even for a second imagine it wasn'
t entirely merited nor b) reached at any point the level of my disdain for argentinians.
mircea_popescu: nah. he wouldn'
t understand how carbon fiber catamaran "warships" work.
mircea_popescu: lucky him he didn'
t live these days, what a fine hitler icon they could have cut out of his hide.
thestringpuller: Well he sends kal-el (superman) to earth, cause krypton goes boom cause people didn'
t listen.
thestringpuller: Consumers rely on blind trust based on recent observations. That is they want to deposit money in black box X, to retrieve Y. If black box fails their expectations, its because they didn'
t perform their due diligence in researching the black box.
thestringpuller: As chappelle once said, "You can'
t just choke all your problems away. It takes hard work."
mircea_popescu: mats i recall the last time i was in a roomfull of engineers who decided they needed concrete but didn'
t know how to pour it. we were about seven, playing on riverside.
mircea_popescu: covertress well, your attitude's lovely and all, but unfortunately a) you've bit on something you can'
t actually swallow and b) i see no direct way to explain this to you in such a way it'd make sense, owing to your complete lack of even vaguely related experience. what'd i build on ?
danielpbarron: aren'
t you afraid that by the time you snip out all the shit from eth there won'
t be just an empty file?
mircea_popescu: but when it does, the peasants (ie, same azns) are quite distraught to discover that what they did with the swindler not only DIDN'
T get them any closer to their intended destination,
mircea_popescu: this swindle is supposed to work in the sense that corriere della sera (ie, trilema) doesn'
t make it to castellamare in shitlandia.
mircea_popescu: unscrupulous swindler (ie, usg) promises the latter that he's representative of the former, meanwhile he doesn'
t even have film in the "camera".
thestringpuller: you know, you can leave your beer bottle in the toilet if you want, it doesn'
t a111: Logged on 2016-07-07 00:46 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-06#1498418 << fwiw i don';
t see this behaviour ; however i have perhaps the most egregious example of "permanently behind" node : "blocks" : 414720
shinohai: I was going to go to the Xday fest, but didn'
t feel like driving to Ohio
shinohai: You don'
t have slave girls that read trilema to you during workouts?
ben_vulpes: nevermind that it doesn'
t do *anything* for api discovery. utility seems limited to fuzzy method name completion.
ben_vulpes: like which babe was that? the one who is in la now or the one coming back from la or the one who won'
t shut up about how miserable the guys in la and portland are?
mircea_popescu: what, you don'
t know her ? EVERYONE KNOWS EVERYONE IN TINYTOWN OREGONZ!
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the anglotards have taken the puritanism to such absurd degree they can'
t talk to each other unless at least vaguely going through the motions of selling something
mircea_popescu: the original nubbins' failure to matter is a fine example in exactly this vein - you can'
t take the pig out of the pig just because you want another prince.
mircea_popescu: same EXACT thing, with the negligible difference that nubbins-likes like this scam and don'
t like that scam
a111: Logged on 2016-05-05 13:03 asciilifeform: the thermodynamic 'taboo against the coincidence' is described in, oddly enough, winnie pooh! '"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn'
t know what it was called.'
mircea_popescu: cuz if the blocks were bigger it wouldn'
t matter which one it was in amirite ?
mircea_popescu: i'm currently wondering if sex in alf household is something pet always initiates, and has to fight through a barrage of "this won'
t work and has already been done but it went away" first!
shinohai: mircea_popescu: forgot the /s which doesn'
t readily translate
mircea_popescu: trinque i has nfi, all i know is i put deeds in, wanted to add them to s.mg report, can'
t add because no link!
thestringpuller: I get what you're saying, but this is why "don'
t spend more than can afford to lose"
thestringpuller: shinohai: i don'
t think so. i've only seen smickles' collection
thestringpuller: will neg rate if I look at pub address can'
t use key. or if i crack open coin and can'
t sweep key.
deedbot: thestringpuller rated casascius 2 at 2014/06/22 13:45:58 << never met him never talked to him. after buying my first bitcoins, I turned one into a Casascius coin. Haven'
t opened, maybe never will. He is the hero Bitcoin needs.