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punkman: "By the grace if Allah upon His faithful servants, your brothers in the Technical Department of GIMF
as well
as the brothers in Al-Fajr Media Center have developed encryption software to protect your communications on your personal computers and mobile phones."
gabriel_laddel: dawwww I'm so curious
as to your thoughts on MDMA, cocaine, LSD
gabriel_laddel: trinque: ah, so nicotine is one of my favorite
as well
mircea_popescu: in operational terms, i was
as excited
as you were, apparently.
trinque: yeah I "never could wake up"
as a teenager either
trinque: ahaha, this is excellent due to the gentoo-
as-ricer-car mockery
trinque: those may be different chemistry; I'm still chewing on the article
as I said!
trinque:
as it stands you've got a massive addiction to caffeine
trinque: taking anxiety
as an example; the worst thing you can do is try to avoid it.
trinque: that is,
as long
as you can convince yourself you have a good chance at being in the state you want to be in ;)
mircea_popescu: i just had the girls lined up with their mouths open while i swore
as to the various aspects
mircea_popescu: you lot could just
as well have a glass of water and go takle a nap.
gabriel_laddel: mats: I'm curious
as to why you're curious
as to BB's opinion?
mats: but I'll give it a go, soon
as I acquire a hot plate
mats: and something known
as a 'paramotor', which is kinda cool.
mircea_popescu: q : is there a way to actually publish this
as a discrete item ?
mircea_popescu: but i disover the problem with me actually is SIZE.
as in, gotta be this long.
mod6: nice town. probably will take a long time to rebuild. they had a hurricane that hit back in like 2002 or 2003 that hit them pretty hard, probably not nearly
as bad
as this though
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 16:32:27; asciilifeform: 'I don't care if your language lawyers tell you gcc is right. THIS WILL CAUSE PEOPLE TO GET HACKED.' << this is not hundred percent idiotic. the c programming language is specified in such a way, with sufficiently pervasive 'undefined behaviours' and nonstandardized but inescapable routines, that it is ~physically impossible~ to program in it
as-specified
mircea_popescu: "The question that they are answering isn't "does environment matter more than genetics?" It's a more subtle, sneaky, social-policy questionr: "since we now know that genetics isn't
as deterministic
as we hoped, is there something else that we can focus on which is equally out of our control? What about the goings-on in utero? So that the environment factors matter only at that time, not later? Then we can safely
mircea_popescu: What do you think would happen if the NIMH paid astrophysicists to look into psychiatry? Ain't never gonna find out, they have their own problems. Specialization doesn't mean I'm the best, it means stay off my lawn. Since I/us/astrophysicists don't have the resources to publish at all/
as fast
as Pediatrics or CNN, they get to decide what's true.
mircea_popescu: You mean because the further away we get from the hot news cycle, the less you're interested in the truth? And so apathy allows it to stand
as true, because it all seems plausible (face validity, bitches.) That's social science for you. But the answer to your question is simple: I don't get paid to criticize studies. I have a job and a life and an alcohol problem that doesn't leave much room for blog posts.
mircea_popescu: h people
as individuals, so it deals with them
as groups, types, diagnoses and organ banks."
mircea_popescu: "Just a piece of advice. If you are ever arrested, make sure to ask for a jury.
As for two juries. If your lawyer says the words "bench" and "trial" at any point in the same paragraph, flee to Argentina. Those 12 idiots, imperfect
as they are, are one of the only things protecting you from a top down, hierarchical, classist, flow chart wielding government clusterfuck that has no time, interest, or money to deal wit
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> pete_dushenski espn was never a start-up. it was rassmunsen backed by getty. <<
As far
as I can remember all Disney
mircea_popescu: compare b-a and random scammer circle, "dollar vigilante" thing or the keiser radio show (hey, check it out, "Auroracoin is a cryptocurrency launched in February 2014
as an Icelandic alternative to bitcoin and the Icelandic króna. Its unknown creator or creators" < hard at work deleting the internet history of previous scams,
as if THAT is how it works now)
ascii_field:
as i understand, the ethereum thing was not purely a classical scam, but has abstract/usgtronic political aims
thestringpuller: i guess royalty is bad word. qntra publishes something, people buy what's published, qntra receives revenue for
as long
as that thing is "in print"
ascii_field:
as in the story with 'what does mircea_popescu's flat cost' ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field and yet,
as much they dislike paywalls, they love paying for ipads.
mircea_popescu: but if you're not happy with the mere "meaningless line"
as seen i ntrilema selection
thestringpuller: me either. qntra isn't a webcomic so I don't expect it to monetize
as such. but the webcomics have held their own.
ascii_field: anyway it remains simple to get actual chocolate, at least near major urban centers in usa (where ru immigrants live.) but
as an ~ingredient~ it has become very scarce. i've largely given up on ice cream, for instance.
pete_dushenski:
as long a the goal of 'chocolatiers' is more people, that's what they'll get
pete_dushenski: which is really the same situation
as ww1 germany, you could have coffee at SOME price, just not one that anyone but the chancellor can afford.
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: nato chocolate has sucked donkey arse for
as long
as i've been alive, afaik
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 05:19:47; BingoBoingo: For a while Hershey was advertising that shit
as chocolate... since the ruling they just don't sell chocolate now, just "chocolate product"
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 06:35:14; mircea_popescu: he certainly wasn't poor, but that's
as far
as that goes.
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 06:33:53; mircea_popescu: "Washington was a land developer, often described
as the richest of his generation. By the end of the American Revolution, General Washington controlled about sixty thousand acres of land" << and there lies the debunk. it's true that george washington was well off. it's true he controlled some tens of k's of acres. it is UNTRUE that made him "richest in his generation".
HeySteve: no I didn't make up a number, I covered all the data and tallied the red flags
as I went
mircea_popescu: that problem being... did you just MAKE UP A NUMBER ? in a discussion about an article that you submitted which was rejected for being very poorly written, which you wish to interpret
as political, or stylistical, or anything but what the actual problem is ?
HeySteve: 3. the hardforks with another one coming
as soon
as this weekend
mircea_popescu: <HeySteve>
as for the rest, mircea_popescu, you may dismiss everything that isn't Bitcoin 0.5
as a scam but I do not take this view without evidence << but note that none of that is in any sense what i said.
Zuardi: oh, I see, I need to do the same thing on assbot
as well
HeySteve:
as for the rest, mircea_popescu, you may dismiss everything that isn't Bitcoin 0.5
as a scam but I do not take this view without evidence
☟︎ pete_dushenski: i guess it could be the mistaken belief that 'men of the people are by definition the people incarnate and are therefore
as average
as anyone even though we remember only the names of the best of us and not those of the men who were truly average and truly of the people'
pete_dushenski:
as if that was the only true basis for their xtianity reborn
mircea_popescu: "Washington was a land developer, often described
as the richest of his generation. By the end of the American Revolution, General Washington controlled about sixty thousand acres of land" << and there lies the debunk. it's true that george washington was well off. it's true he controlled some tens of k's of acres. it is UNTRUE that made him "richest in his generation".
☟︎ pete_dushenski: <b></b> for bold and <i></i> for italic << my dumdum wp install does <strong></strong> for bold and <em></em> for italic. don't ask why but it seems unnecessary to specify which precise tags to use if strong/em seem to work just
as well
as b/i, which they do.
pete_dushenski: " Links to sources out of Level 1 of assbots Web or Trust and links to dynamic pages that change content
as a function of their nature should be followed with a link to an archive.is snapshot of the page in the form" << specified here, mind you.
BingoBoingo: For a while Hershey was advertising that shit
as chocolate... since the ruling they just don't sell chocolate now, just "chocolate product"
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Could probably spec jpeg, png, and animated gif
as fine, .gifv and .tiff are spammy
BingoBoingo: cazalla, thestringpuller, pete_dushenski, hanbot, PeterL
as the qntra contributors with more than 3 pieces a piece, your feedback is especially welcome. Every contributor will get a ;;later tell in about 12 hours baring messages lodged in channel.
BingoBoingo: Definitely not
as redeeming though
as "The Asylum's" "#1 Cheerleader Camp"
BingoBoingo: Encrypted means it was either a turd when sent or we're fucked. So
as asciilifeform pointed out sigs are probably a must too.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "without further modifiers such
as where the link ought to open." << what's this mean ?
adlai: or,
as eloquently put by theresa heinz kerry... "you said that i said something that i didn't say, so you can shove it"
BingoBoingo: The formatting guidelines will be effective
as soon
as the link hits this channel, because I'm tired of buring more braincycles civilizing submission that deturding legal pdfs.
ascii_field: 'may
as well hang for a sheep
as for a lamb' (tm)
mircea_popescu: how about the alternative explanation being "society
as a whole thinks young males should die horribly in droves and fuck you already."
mircea_popescu: But perhaps there's a different explanation: there may be an assumption that if a guy asks such a basic/stupid question, then he's an idiot and not worth bothering with; but if a girl asks it, well, a college girl isn't held to the same standard/ expected to know
as much."
mircea_popescu: "I'll add that the majority of the people I email are male; the few women I've emailed haven't been any different. I've confirmed this by waiting a long time (month) and re-emailing a different (but still simple) version
as a woman.
mircea_popescu: there's a great scene in donnie brasco where newell depicts the death of john wayne
as transformative for those schmucks.
mircea_popescu: five people read that thing, at most, and nobody asked them anything. he might
as well have been the author of any other rejected nbc pilot.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck does Richard Wilkinson manage to look at the data showing that us blacks making $1k a month just for the asking nevertheless sit around poles like monkeys glaring at people ; whereas those same blacks living in brazil, making a quarter
as much or less for 200+ hour work months go out and fix the swing in the park that they build for free in their spare time and decide there's something wrong "with society"
mircea_popescu: "
As much
as Sandra Bullock drives me insane I have never set fire to a trash can or impregnated a teenager because she made what is obviously way too much money for agreeing to be in the worst movies ever scripted by spider monkeys."
mircea_popescu: elin are profiled
as they raise their atypical family of sextuplets and twins." when it really should read "that boring dumbass trying to make money out of televising her sextuplets" ?
mircea_popescu: no i mean, sunroof
as in, a floor without a roof on top of the building.
ascii_field: (if there were a recovery prompt,
as in normal sys5-style init, it would be fixable.
as it is, whole thing - os lives on nand flash for which i haven't the emergency reflash clips - is a writeoff)
mircea_popescu: you're only a bagholder inasmuch
as the shit you made wasn't worth anything anyway.
thestringpuller: yea, the employee stock plan, (giving us bonuses in stock, and offering pre-tax paycheck stock purchases), is essentially a stock warrant. i'm not invested in it, cause most of these companies tend to use employees
as bagholders.
thestringpuller: mos def. but i find it scandalous if you use employees
as bagholders...
lobbes: or poop back into bag, re-sell
as 'locally sourced'
mircea_popescu: and getting back to slavery (
as a historical consturct this time) and the subtle perversion of culture : in the ten billion discussions of how badly antebellum slaves had it that point out that they were being educated (misrepresented
as "beatings" and horror, of course), how many stop to point out that a) they didn't starve periodically like their northern counterparts and b) if they behaved had lifetime, even GENERAT
ben_vulpes: strikes me
as a colossal waste of time, but then again i'm not a fantastically wealthy financier.