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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have nfi where you expect "foss" code without shitgnome signatures
to come from.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 09:48:04; cazalla: punkman, been a daily
thing for almost 3 years for me, just grown
tired of it and
the conversations about it past few months, i'm not saying "bitcoin is dead" just
that i'm
tired of
talking/reading about it after
this long, feel like going
to do something else for 6-12 months and looking at it
then after a break
pete_dushenski: the problem
the preacher has is
that he never knows who he's going
to convery
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 09:05:26; BingoBoingo: So far October has been an frustratingly boring part of Bitcoin. I am worried
though
that Qntra is crossing into its second year and people don't want a giftwrapped chance
to write a first story. Is qntra insufficiently established or does
this seem
too much of a
trap. I
the cost of fucking up in #b-a seeming
too high? I am confused.
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pete_dushenski: this being
the dominion of people for whom grunts and shouts pass for 'communication'
pete_dushenski: it's certainly for
the
type of non-intellectual who can neither reason with girl nor find alternative avenue of action
through which
to persuade her
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 01:24:54; mircea_popescu:
there is in point of fact nothing objectively wrong with honor killings, all sorts of pretense
to
the contrary notwithstanding. if you can get your hands around her neck you can strangle her. or not. your option. reality has both functions loaded and ready
to go and return;
pete_dushenski: interesting article
though. will definitely pass it along
to
the other girls. y'know, for science.
pete_dushenski: thanks in no small part
to my self-promotional marketing campaign, naturally
pete_dushenski: "The husbands were observed by
their wives
to be less sensitive
to
the kids
than other fathers and helped less with parenting." << seems
to be a crucial one.
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 01:01:56; mircea_popescu: "The women with depressed, unhelpful husbands did not report lower levels of marital satisfaction; rather
they were maintained at high levels. One interpretation of our data was
that
the women's more negative memories of
their fathers served
the function of minimizing (or denying)
their husbands' failure
to be as helpful as needed. If
this is all
that can be expected of men,
then I can no longer rec
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 00:57:32; mircea_popescu: "you design and build
the battleships and whatever else you feel like doing anyway you want
to - we'll beat you
to shit with
them."
shinohai: Some enterprising individuals in
this area will often lift cars using cinder blocks, as if $19.99 is
too much
to rent a pair of jackstands and do it right.
cazalla: ascii_field, not exactly (but i do need
to find a job), just want a break from everything bitcoin so i can go find something else
cazalla: will also need
to push domain
to either yours or bb's namecheap, or it can remain in mine but either way
mircea_popescu: alrighty i
think we got an agreement
there. post an addy an' we'll have a memorandum on deedbot laters.
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 18:26:37; mircea_popescu: so BingoBoingo, since cazalla's getting out, i figure 10 btc for his chunk should be good enough ? (what you
think cazalla ?). you wanna go halves with me in it ?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: can't you see where
they
take
the extra money out?!
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo methinks yo uchase way
too hard. << Ah
mircea_popescu: ftr - you CAN get sick from
too much caviar. and it's not fucking pretty.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller die young leave a corpse with nice
tits, eh ?
ascii_field: 1) he wasn't paid in genuine money 2) i'm not convinced
that he's a cultured man
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: you reminded me of story of girl who sold a company in college for a couple million and
then ended up overdosing
the next day
mircea_popescu: to
the logs! remember, we were mocking him last week ?
mircea_popescu: but from what i hear
the "cultured poor" a la ers fare not much better.
ascii_field: sure is. lottery players are drawn from
the stinking-poor. while i'm describing
the cultured-poor.
mircea_popescu: because from what i hear on your planet
the life expectancy of lottery winner is 3 years.
ascii_field: precisely why should
the latter consider
the former 'their betters' ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: back
to
the 'poor'
thread, i can't comment re: your planet, but on mine we have no shortage of imbeciles with fat wallets and penniless erdöses
ascii_field: i didn't hang'em up upside-down and connect
to
the mains
to get
the
truth, no.
mircea_popescu: so
then for all you know
they smoked in a non-smoking place.
mircea_popescu: \were
they your slaves ? did you know
them in
the penis-in-colon sense ?
mircea_popescu: and "knew others" is also bullshit. you knew others in
the sense of what
they chose
to present
thestringpuller: either pay
the government scandalous property
taxes, or get butt fucked by a landlord
mircea_popescu: that's
the point.
that nominalism never fixed anything.
thestringpuller: renting vs buying: a choice between
two bowls of shit in
the US
mircea_popescu: but anyway, all of
this is nonsense. if IN GENERAL landlords keep
the deposit,
then IT IS JUST A COST. like part of
the cost of renting. and if you somehow magically push
this valve shut,
ascii_field: well, interestingly, i personally did.
the last
time i checked out of a flat. but knew others, who rented in same building, who did not, and without any particularly good reason other
than 'landlord knew
they hadn't what
to sue with'
mircea_popescu: the REASON you can't afford
to litigate is
THAT you are making bullshit up.
ascii_field: can't speak for other side of
the atlantic, but over here 'security deposit' is
to be returned
to
the
tenant when he leaves, minus repair costs,
the latter
to be presented in writing and with receipts from repairmen
mircea_popescu: words mean nothing in and of
themselves, and
the pretense
to
the contrary is always self-serving bullshit when deployed in such contexts, "oh, i can't afford
to litigate"
mircea_popescu: we don't have
the contract before our eyes, but im willing
to bet it reads "and renter
to return place IN
THE SAME CONDITION" which by
tradition is interpreted in
that locale
that you pay for
the fumigation after you're done in
the shape of an upfront
thing.
ascii_field: nobody promises
to give dc setup fee back.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: iirc
thread was about fraud proper, where contract promises 'you get
this back' but
the response is 'haha, whatchagonnadoaboutit'
mircea_popescu: this is
the process whereby it's made sure. as
the guy describes. "deposit fraud". hey check it out, some dcs charge a set-up fee. "dc fraud". herp.
ascii_field: does mircea_popescu recall his own article re: how
the caveat re:
treating people as cows, is
that one must first make sure
the entire lot actually ~is~ bovine ?
ascii_field: does one divide by zero just by asking
this ?
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 15:13:52; mircea_popescu: but it is NEVER
the case
that
the poor are being gypped by
this. whatever
the law of
the land is,
they're getting it back in some other form.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] [PAID] 137.10466440 BTC
to 500`000`000 shares, 27 satoshi per share
ben_vulpes: eh so
the place has a decade left before 'bankrupt' if such has meaning outside of bitcoin
ben_vulpes: sure, but
that it *will* stop, or
that it *has* stopped?
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: it means - if it means anything -
that
the music stops.
ben_vulpes: yeah what
the hell *does* it mean
to be bankrupt when you can print
the notes in which your loans are denominated?
mircea_popescu: nobel prize economist said you can never go bankrupt borrowing in your own currency and so it's
true
ben_vulpes: ascii_field: when did
the weimar republic go bankrupt?
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: wai wut, as if
they were not bankrupt already long ago ?
ben_vulpes: they've made promises
that are going
to bankrupt
them.
ben_vulpes: well no, nobody's arguing
that
they're in control.
ben_vulpes: and
those refund checks are
turkey-buyin-dollars
assbot: [MPEX] [S.BBET] [PAID] 1.39028209 BTC
to 10`000`000 shares, 13 satoshi per share
ben_vulpes: "we're not collecting poorly, we're denoting
this group for large refunds at
the end of
the year"
mircea_popescu: "we don't poorly collect because intentionally, it's just hard
to do!!1"