37400+ entries in 0.457s
assbot: Logged on 19-12-2015 19:56:10; asciilifeform: over here it is called 'extended stay hotel' and is much
as mircea_popescu describes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not so simple
as all that, not really. what, you leave water running each week, landlord fixes ?
mircea_popescu: "I can even get it up to 2 or 3 block confirmation before the real network overtakes it with a longer chain. This is a risk accepted
as a tradeoff by SPV clients, but not acceptable for full node clients which are expected to be secure on their own."
mircea_popescu: My feelings, and the feelings of many people I know, are more hurt by the prolonged waiting for a concrete answer while we sit quietly with our feigned Chill. It is
as if I’ve broken some unwritten law when I ask what they are looking for and am dissatisfied with the answer “I don’t really like to put labels on things.” But putting labels on things are how people find the exit during a fire and make sure they
mircea_popescu: "But Chill is not the opposite of uptight. It is the opposite of demanding accountability. Chill is a sinister refashioning of “Calm down!” from an enraging and highly gendered command into an admirable attitude. Chill suggests that young love is best expressed
as competitive ambivalence. Chill demands that you see a Read receipt followed by a “Hey, was asleep” text three hours later and not proceed to throw yo
mircea_popescu: "marriage". it's a flexible institution. seems the correct implementation of ghetto-marriage (
as opposed to the middle class white same sex marriage thing they do - yes it's always two women) is where you keep 2-5 bitchez and professionally are either a thief or a drug dealer.
assbot: Logged on 19-12-2015 13:42:01; pete_dushenski: "The government in the Netherlands has clarified that it is legal for driving instructors to offer lessons in return for sex,
as long
as the students are over the age of 18. However, it is illegal to offer sex in return for lessons." << hahaha so man may proposition fillie but not vice versa eh. man i like those dutch.
PeterL: any financial advice I give should be taken with a grain of salt,
as exemplified by my horrible mortgage investment I don't have alot of good marks on my record
liquidassets: I've just tried to blend the two
as much
as possible
PeterL: I was unemployed part of this year. I am working on building a savings to use
as a down payment
liquidassets: Look, with interest rates on 30 year mort
as low
as they have been, why aren't you leveraging?
pete_dushenski: "The government in the Netherlands has clarified that it is legal for driving instructors to offer lessons in return for sex,
as long
as the students are over the age of 18. However, it is illegal to offer sex in return for lessons." << hahaha so man may proposition fillie but not vice versa eh. man i like those dutch.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: because hey, people are basically water -
as long
as you put the work in to make dykes while it rains, you can have an artificial lake np.
mircea_popescu: (this isn't,
as the retail bankers got the retail suckers to think, a case of "you can't takle anything other than my house".
mircea_popescu: punkman> I quite like not being in debt <<
as usual, retail is for suckers. consumer debt's just about the dumbest proposition i ever heard. nevertheless, nrl isn't that bad.
liquidassets: right,
as long
as it's 'sanitized' to pull from MP
punkman: well yes,
as long
as the megatons money you print doesn't really circulate
liquidassets: assets are defined strictly
as something that puts money in your pocket every month
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> because unless std::string does something clever with refcounts,
as far
as i can see: they do not. << they do not.
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 14:26:51; mircea_popescu: "However, our growth rate did not meet our expectations, and the service does not scale
as we would have expected to." aka "trying to leech of bitcoin while doing the usual fiat bullshit doesn't work."
mircea_popescu: "We thought that others would also be interested in such a feature for their website, that made it possible to sell print products from all their pictures. Therefore, we decided to build something more generic, that everyone else could use
as well. The new service was called PiX’n’PaLs PhotoProducts, which helped publishers monetize their website by selling print products from images. We took care of payment, shipp
mircea_popescu: or to be more precise : the only way it could be actually used makes it obvious it's being so used (same exact principle
as for the pay for your tits thing : carve this hash in the guy's forehead or some shit), and it being obvious it's so being used makes it trivial for bitbet to disalow the bet in question.
mircea_popescu: chocolate coins would make sense
as a means of payment.
ascii_field: '90s ru capitalism was built seemingly using that parody
as a handbook
mircea_popescu: in fact, kids books specifically point out habarnam
as "only capable of block printing"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field my first thought upon encountering my first usians,
as a 10 yo boy, was that "these people never went to school, did they ?"
mircea_popescu: in any case asciilifeform, thius is the primary driver for the stupidification of everything, and it's genuine. people are stupid. either you build your cash register
as the mcdonals iconographic abomination, or they stick to doing it "by hand". like idiot argentine woman yest. i buy a carton of cigarettes, four litersd of milk and two lighters. she does the addition on paper. first she adds 80 + 260 + 18 but misplaces
mircea_popescu: "I think we had too much hesitation in the decisions about what we were able to do and on the delivered product
as well.
liquidassets: pain and suffering
as in, shit medical care, shit food, shit everything...
liquidassets: Actually that's about a perfect answer
as they come
mircea_popescu: who knew that answering a bunch of pre-made questions nobody could care less about and then trying to mechanically "datamine" them isn't
as good an approach
as "hey, check out X, she's exactly right for you"
Birdman: Just
as all the feminists are on the unattracive side of the spectrum
liquidassets: Birdman natural
as in I felt it before when in a 'menial' job taken AFTER accomplishments I was proud of and some surecock comes waltzing in telling everyone how mommy and daddy OWN a grocery store back in Minnesota and so blah blah...And I let him get under my skin
trinque: and if not, he'll still want it
as he'd still want sex, even if he couldn't get any.
Birdman: Natural
as in most people will end up like that? I dont intend to grow into that situation. I cant speak for anything outside of my own experiences, but
as the world with open arms accepts socialism, you can expect more unfounded entitlement.
liquidassets: I think Birdman that it's a natural thing to want respect
as you get older, especially FROM the younger. Because most younger are worthless anyway and they never got respect from their peers either
Birdman: Yes,
as far
as America goes this is common. The fat slob brainwashee's who arent worth a damn would like to be held in high regards.
trinque: do not take the circumstances under which you grew up
as universal.
liquidassets: Previously my frustration has been with older men who think themselves a little too highly for my taste, have acquired the ability to navigate social circles/seem to have all the power, and see me
as a punk kid
liquidassets: I'd prefer to eat and not think of it
as shit..?
mircea_popescu: the difference being that businesses happen at the tip of a large pushing force, such
as the airbnb scam pushed by paul graham-madoff, or such
as "green energy" scam pushed by president bahamas-madoff. to be a start-up is exactly opposite to this, you're alone.
mircea_popescu: "Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress 2012: I remember seing nice pictures of nice cocktails and nice restaurants from the business developers; I remember seing lots of appointments with potential customers; I remember it ended up with no customer but a partnership; I still do not know the cost of the operation, even
as a cofounder." awww.
mircea_popescu: minor exceptions, such
as "No. Once a man gives in he is through." << not so for a woman.
mircea_popescu: right-o. because the one thing we're truly committed to, beyond anything and everything else, is that there MUST NOT BE any god in the god damned machine. what if there were and he started spewing death warrants and whatnot! no, no, gimme lukewarm mediocrity
as a prior and let's see how well i do!
mircea_popescu: "Having such detailed feedback wouldn’t require diving into the data, but having someone spend an hour stress-testing my thinking and assumptions would have been gold dust and could have prevented a lot of effort wasted. I’m sure I’d have gotten that had Dinnr been accepted into accelerator programmes such
as Seedcamp, TechStars or Wayra. But absent a full-time co-founder, we weren’t eligible for the former two
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 05:46:20; trinque: I begin to believe they're just targeting the intelligent outright
as a matter of.. what do you call it... full spectrum domination?
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-12-2015#1346221 << seems the process they settled on is to write many thousands of pages, not
as much on the theory that hey, eventually something in there will close (much like the random-wiring approach to making cpus), but moreover on the theory that then they can ACT
as if it did, and you're welcome to challenge heh heh.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: same exact deal
as for that de raadt fellow, or that auerheimer fellow, or everyone else actually.
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 04:27:41; asciilifeform:
as in, not only did folks get $15k or whatever creditcard-level investment for, what, 20% cut, but had to ~live~ in the compound
BingoBoingo: "I wish the devs were
as active
as they were in beta. Things got out of hand one time and all active players, save two, were permabanned over the course of a 40 day ban spree. The two remaining players survived due to a workaround and built the community back up."
trinque: I begin to believe they're just targeting the intelligent outright
as a matter of.. what do you call it... full spectrum domination?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "We’ve spent last few years building Wishberg
as a default destination for users to share their wishes & discover more interesting wishes from people around the world - things to do, things to buy, travel, adventure, experiences and so much more. The journey has been beautiful, exhilarating, exciting with lots of learning for all of us."
mircea_popescu: "Women, white and black, who do not qualify for management, are usually not worth anything on the staff, and generally steal at about 20%, with lower paid working black girls less than half
as likely to steal
as their management counterparts, and white girls on staff infinitely more larcenous than the white girls in management. I won’t even try and explain this,
as it boggles my mind." it doesn't boggle my mind any.
mircea_popescu: "Black female managers are rarely effective and steal at 50%—fully half of the ones I have worked with being confirmed thieves." << lioness hunting for the clan
as opposed to the ball busting harpy gioving herself and everyone else aneurisms. makes sense, huh.
mircea_popescu: "White female managers usually end up with nervous breakdowns and are not
as effective
as men, but are 100% loyal and never steal, ever. This is the backbone of any retail food staff, white chicks. Work her until she breaks and get another."
mircea_popescu: similarly, there is not such a thing
as "what it takes TO bed beautiful women".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there is no such thing
as "a price tag". this is an ex-post-facto calculation.
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 23:48:37; BingoBoingo: Murican Poverty: "Big Mamma is your ideal customer. Yes, she might eat an entire rotisserie chicken while her children devour a box of snacks. But not only will I look the other way, I’m willing to pay some retarded white guy $10 an hour to clean up her mess. She is the cash bomb. No customer, not Bill Gates or the Dyke Queen of West Germany spends
as much money on retail food
as Big Mamma. This is not
mircea_popescu:
as a result they misperceive their incentives and lose out.
mircea_popescu: this is why it's always a good idea to liberalize : the price on the black market ALWAYS drops
as a result.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the contact points with the outside economy are controlled
as well
as they can be (they can't be - most of the local trade is in the hands of the chinese, who own the proud but stupid argentine. whenever i want to move dollars, or to dispose of any other actyual economic or poltiical matters, i talk to an asian person. no exceptions. i wouldn't break a date with han because macri called, sort of thing)
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 23:24:37; pete_dushenski: " Argentina's peso plunged more than 26.5 percent on Thursday, after the country's new government floated the currency
as part of a slew of free-market reforms aimed at revitalizing the stagnant economy."
mircea_popescu: alf would suspect this is deliberate. maybe it is. maybe they're just
as dumb
as a box of rocks.
mircea_popescu: you have already seen the floor. a bunch of hungry people in ugly cheap suits moving flimsy paper around, with stamp ink shortages,
as in moscow 1985
PeterL: so you can grab one to use
as rocket?
BingoBoingo: Also Know
as Qntra tries clickbait even though we stopped counting clicks
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 23:45:23; pete_dushenski: based on alf's repeated references to gsm
as 'toy crypto', i don't think he maintains any delusions about cell phone security
BingoBoingo: "Not only does Big Mamma spend twice
as much money
as the next closest customer, but her dollar is an impulsive dollar, which nets the grocer four times the profit of—the Korean or Hebrew dollar, for instance, and twice the profit
as the Anglo or Hispanic dollar."