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pete_dushenski: and in
the latest bitcoin bloodbath, even
the mighty maidsafecoin is coming back down
to earth. pretty much ipo level nao and nowhere
to go but down.
pete_dushenski: unless other scam/altcoiners are dropping
their other bags and grabbing for eth, lol
assbot: Logged on 02-11-2015 06:55:59; mircea_popescu: supposedly
there exist suckers buying into
this. like supposedly
there existed suckers buying into
the original "sale". right-o.
assbot: Logged on 02-11-2015 04:06:09; mircea_popescu: next
thing you know wife gets
too confident of her position and
the kid's covered in helmets.
pete_dushenski: unfortunately around here
that's readily muddled with 'acreage life', which it basically
ten x 12-acre plots per 'subdivision' where each family has a mid-sized house and a big field for storing
their camping
trailers/skidoos
assbot: Logged on 02-11-2015 03:41:07; mircea_popescu: i find
the pastoral images soothing
pete_dushenski: no, your replacing your laptop with a LEASED mini-ipad/phone is
the future. and here we are.
☟︎ pete_dushenski: I have only seen conspicuous consumers and Apple fanboys wearing
the
things. << i've seen exactly
two young men wearing
the apple watch. exactly
two. "no one could've predicted!"
pete_dushenski: it's self-correcting.
the 'good investor' will come
to see himself as having been fortunate
THAT ONCE
pete_dushenski: so i score a hole-in-one at
the golf course and
think myself a good golfer now, worst case scenario is i buy a few rounds of beer and boast for a few weeks/months, maybe biting off a bit more
than i can chew in a few subsequent matches, but
the afterglow will soon fade
pete_dushenski: does he go
to
the casino and play lotteries because he
thinks 'i can't lose!' or does he bury his fortunate
treasure until something equally magnificent
to whatever succeeded
the first
time around comes around again, IF it comes around again.
pete_dushenski: "The worst
thing
that can happen
to a man is for him
to invest speculatively as a sideline and for it
to work. He
then runs
the risk of considering himself a good investor." << hardly
the worst
thing
that can happen
to a man. depends entirely on what he does with his self-confidence as an investor
pete_dushenski: "My naïve
Tesla "buy" call was predicated on
the American green fetish at
the
time" << did you actually pick up some shares or just 'recommend' ?
☟︎ pete_dushenski: ;;later
tell ben_vulpes heyo any measurements on
the little v-man
to report ? length, weight, etc. ?
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 02-11-2015 03:09:05; BingoBoingo:
ty pete_dushenski
pete_dushenski: it's no different
than calling your friend 'aces' because when you play poker he somehow always have pocket rockets.
tis just a nickname.
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mircea_popescu: but we still agree it's just a
tool, rite ? like a glorified hoe ?
phf: see,
that's cause your priorities were straight. my first "real computer" was a shell into msu machine
that was part of GlasNet project (glasnost! internet!) from an elektronika computer, so i kind of always assumed
that real computers is not something you have at home. i always just wanted a "deck" from neuromancer.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> here's a bit of
truth for one bb : "Note
that when scienticians
talk about, say,
the increase in alcoholism,
they never go back before WWII, otherwise
they'd have
to label most ancient Greeks, all Vikings and everyone in colonial America as alcoholics. "Well,"
they'll explain, "it wasn't until
then we started rigorously
treating people as data points." " << Or
the society is broken as illustrated by
the differing
phf: still can be had for peanuts, but of course can't get back
the
time investment into "living with mac", re
the in-log points about "running linux since 99"
phf: i sold my retrohardware before one of
the moves, because, i'm ashamed
to say, in 2007 it seemed like "mac, you're my unix now"
phf: that actually looks like octane, i had
the low end O2 version
phf: sgi had
the best implementation of x window system. i briefly had an o2, hand me down from a retrocomputing enthusiast
mircea_popescu: in any case : an effectual immune response keeps
this particular virus well contained. its efficiency is predicated on a well functioning liver because of peculiar synthesis pathways
that are narrow and easily stress
that i don't recall extemporaneously.
mircea_popescu: i don't have a source in
that sense. you can quote me as an expert.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: except pretty much everyone can be made
to develop mouth herpes by stressing
the liver in a particular manner
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: what does it mean
to "have
the antibody",
that one's body produces it?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: source for
that claim of yours?
assbot: Logged on 18-06-2015 14:04:54; mircea_popescu: except pretty much everyone can be made
to develop mouth herpes by stressing
the liver in a particular manner
assbot: Herpes affects
two-thirds of people under 50, WHO says | World news |
The Guardian
mircea_popescu: funnily,
the DO NOT apply
the same principle
to "climate data".
mircea_popescu: here's a bit of
truth for one bb : "Note
that when scienticians
talk about, say,
the increase in alcoholism,
they never go back before WWII, otherwise
they'd have
to label most ancient Greeks, all Vikings and everyone in colonial America as alcoholics. "Well,"
they'll explain, "it wasn't until
then we started rigorously
treating people as data points." "
mircea_popescu: the "commercial unix houses" were
the happy marriage of imbeciles
to eighteen-abortions whores.
mircea_popescu: (it's a
testament
to
the idiocy of america : you can FORCE
them into liking anything.)
mircea_popescu: we would have gotten apple no matter what, even withoujt computing. apple is what happens when an ambitious young man gets lucky with
the media buys early and
then sticks
to it.
mircea_popescu: as in "i'll slit your
throat and rape your sluts" free
ben_vulpes: change at all
to
the labor-intensiveness, but
the labor was more "fun" for a
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes recent rms/everyone else fallout over whether llvm is good or not and gcc should or shouyld not expose
the ast
ben_vulpes: these are molecular researchy folks and
the like
mircea_popescu: we now know enough -
through our own work of digging and
torture-extracted confessions, no less -
to estimate
that a large if not
the largest pillar of
the insanity was rms&co misguided quest
to protect "but people want
to read
the code".
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i am in
the habit of sending various relatives snippets
to paste into sbcl and limited instructions on what
to do
mircea_popescu: romney should have run on a platform of "there may be only one compiler and one namespace per generation and whoever breaks it we'll sell
to ethiopian slavers"