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mircea_popescu: bearing is what you to to said chicks once you start supporting their body weight.
mircea_popescu: Azelphur i'm talkin' about the lot o yuz, but hey. in another year tops it'll be more like good around-the-fire stories
mircea_popescu: and i lost count on mnw, is the guy meanwhile scammy or unscammy ?
mircea_popescu: arguably the difficulty exponential has washed all that into irrelevance, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: the funny thing is that if a bunch of oldtimers whom we won't name didn't think themselves smarter than me back in 2011, and said no to teh pirate guy when i said no to teh pirate guy,
mircea_popescu: it's more a case of "am i going to say "honey wait just a second i need to jot some words down" and look like a dork or am i going to remember it when i'm done with her ?"
mircea_popescu: (generally, a ton of naturally occuring uranium is about 1/3 curie or so)
mircea_popescu: incidentally, most of the us could produce radon gas by the bucket.
mircea_popescu: that way you can time even when offline. also good in space.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re the 30 minute thing : maybe time to include some nuclear power.
mircea_popescu: did they cover in the end as promised or how did that end up ?
mircea_popescu: jobs as organised by people who don't customarily use weaponry would necessarily degenerate in the equivalent of the female chimp flea picking fest.
mircea_popescu: tech as an intellectual pursuit has nothing to do with tech as a job.
mircea_popescu: i was being sarcastic yo. i did physics before i did philosophy.
mircea_popescu: but that's besides the point. i have no problem paying for shit.
mircea_popescu: this created 10-15 years of dead air during which every fuckwit ended up with delusions of equality with the class of people who rightfully had free internet everytthing
mircea_popescu: the internet failed by not having payment well sorted out BEFORE it allowed undegrads access.
mircea_popescu: the luser has already paid aol 30 bucks, he is E.N.T.I.T.L.E.D. to everything else now
mircea_popescu: this is the internet! on the package in which internet came, it clearly said it's an enjoyable experience.
mircea_popescu: pankkake look at that, these filthy bitbet scammers taking over the world.
mircea_popescu: pankkake wouldn't it kick ass if the miners actually had non-planar boards
mircea_popescu: i recall they wanted a pic and so i licensed some at some point
mircea_popescu: there is no possible alternative. no magic trick will make you be knowledgeable, other than actually being knowledgeable.
mircea_popescu: coincidentally, i also blogged about what a pos it is, about on the same timeline
mircea_popescu: "Visits to Wikipedia had previously risen steadily year-on-year for a decade. Towards the end of the 2012 this trend not only stalled, but went into an unprecedented decline."
mircea_popescu: cat-in-the-bag trading may be great comedy, but it's not business.
mircea_popescu: blg groupon is a scam in the manner the web start-up circus is a scam. make website with no utility, pretend huge customer base that doesn't exist or is bught, pretend huge growth that doesn't exist or is manufactured,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, but it's a little ridiculous that they seem to somehow have constructed a pretend-world where they don't even have to consider what they're doing.
mircea_popescu: i mean people who make false statements to collect money from suckers, and then fail to deliver
mircea_popescu: so why would your friend wish to associate himself with the groupon scammers ?