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mircea_popescu: people love
to assume
that means "for
the better", because it briefly did and people are idiots.
mircea_popescu: you entertain
the delusion
that your child is like you, which is
true in unmobile societies.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu:
this is as interesting as computing
the odds of being chinese.
mircea_popescu: incidentally : given
that ~30 million americans are homeless AT ANY GIVEN POINT, and given
that
the life expectancy of
the homeless is not
terribly good, say 5-10 years, do compute
the odds of your child being homeless during his lifetime kthx.
mircea_popescu: the executive difference being
that you get sent
to prison, but go
to
teh street.
ascii_field: i suppose
this is some variant on
the ru
traditional 'prison is like
the grave, can find room for everyone'
mircea_popescu: ah man i've been waiting
to hit someone with
that for like
two weeks.
mircea_popescu: that's why it's so deeply beloved, like no other
thing. ultimate mother.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu does not appear
to apprehend
that it is in fact possible
to have ZERO contact with 'the street'
ascii_field: actually it is
this part
that i readily believe
ascii_field: ended up (iirc) quitting when she divorced
the fella who brought
the crack.
ascii_field: 'it was not even enjoyable, as i smoked
the pipe
the only
thing it was possible
to
think about is
the next pipe'
ascii_field: i had a professor who confessed
to having once been a crack smoker
ascii_field: that'd be
the side-effect. but what of
the effect ?
mircea_popescu: until
the septum ruptures you can't really spot
the snorter. you really can't miss
the crackhead.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu:
the difference in cost is well-known. but what of effect ?
mircea_popescu: which is why
the derrogatory is crack whore, not snortwhore
mircea_popescu: most whores do cocaine. just,
the 20somethings
that do lines go for about 5x
the money of
the 30somethings
that do crack.
mircea_popescu: punkman i can
tell you
the difference. it's about $1k for half-and-half.
mircea_popescu: at some point
the argument was
that pot is a "gateway drug" for
that matter. a sort of kindled
theory of chem addiction i guess.
punkman: well I couldn't
tell you
the difference between powder, crack and freebase
jurov: gabrielradio:
there's supposedly very popular guide
to oral sex, maybe
that one?
mircea_popescu: ok, you've seen it, but chipping heroin is one
thing ; cocaine as powder and as crack is a rather different
thing.
punkman: dunno, I suppose in some places go straight
to iv
mircea_popescu: is
this something you know from some sort of direct experience ?
gabrielradio: shinohai any article in particular you want
to see
translated?
shinohai: gabrielradio: I appreciate anyone willing
to
tackle
translations.
punkman: mircea_popescu: same with heroin, you start with a sniff,
then move on
to smoking and finally iv
gabrielradio: i spend a lot reading
trilema, why not
translate
the ro articles while at it
punkman: at least
the dedicated ones
ascii_field: what's
the upside of
the latter vs
the former ?
punkman: cocaine addicts do move from insufflation
to smoking freebase or crack
shinohai: @ gabrielradio Are you
the Romanian interpreter ?
mircea_popescu: "there's one so-called identified pathway and 500 non miscible so-called addictions. because
this is Fantasia."
ascii_field: No, it isn't, or else
they would be using both, wouldn't
they? << i don't follow
the logic
mircea_popescu: "Ask a 20 year crack addict when was
the last
time
they used powder cocaine. Do
they miss it? Are
they in withdrawal? "But crack is cocaine." No, it isn't, or else
they would be using both, wouldn't
they? "But crack is more potent and addictive."
Then why don't cocaine adicts move over
to crack? "
assbot: Successfully added a rating of 2 for mircea_popescu with note: I get high on
Trilema
assbot: Logged on 15-10-2015 20:35:08; mircea_popescu: "Eu nu am fost angajat niciodata, nicaieri." i can appreciate why you went "I've never been an employee, not
to anybody, not anywhere." but really english is hemingwayan. "I've never been employed." is
the way
to go. less is more for
the saxons.
gabrielradio: mircea_popescu i see. pretty straightforward, no meddling with
the words
mircea_popescu: those guys srsly don't get enough credit, everyone stole all
their shit.
mircea_popescu: "I've never signed payroll, I never held a paycheck, I've never seen
the various small item salesmen visit
the office on pay day nor have I ever asked for a payday loan. Wider, and more importantly, I never worked against my will. Not even as a kid, doing homework."
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: afaik it was a su-only
thing ?
mircea_popescu: "Eu nu am fost angajat niciodata, nicaieri." i can appreciate why you went "I've never been an employee, not
to anybody, not anywhere." but really english is hemingwayan. "I've never been employed." is
the way
to go. less is more for
the saxons.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: they understandably don't wanna be on
the hook for every fucktard with a plane
ticket.
ascii_field: venues in Arizona, Nevada, and
Texas, according
to open source analysis.'
ascii_field: ianal, but
the implication is 'no jail if you come home, but don't expect supplies or rescue if you're in a bind, or good pr'
shinohai: Guess
they would rather I stay home and support
them.
ascii_field: 'the US Government does not support US persons
traveling overseas
to combat ISIL.'
mike_c: i don't even
think it'll matter much longer. html5 will present all
the necessary security holes you need in plain old html
mircea_popescu: yesterday i accidentallied a router. it only
took on
the
third stomp
tho.
jurov: From
the author of "How
to accidentally" bestseller!!1
mircea_popescu: "Browsers without javascript aren't supported by Foswiki out of
the box. We once decided
to assume
that nowadays everybody should have access
to a sufficiantly standard browser
that implements javascript. Of course
this was different 15 years ago when we still had
to deal with IE6 and
the like. But as almost all vendors constantly move forward in web standards. So we
then decided
to strip off
the burden of having
to su
mircea_popescu: "But, yes, Foswiki is becoming more dependent on JavaScript. I doubt
that
this is going
to change."
jurov: after some 10 years.. you don't want
to know
jurov: started
to use it for personal stuff
assbot: Logged on 15-10-2015 10:27:18; punkman:
this proliferation of "javascript required" blank pages is getting annoying
jurov: 1. how do you detect glass is penetrated? 2.
they can open
the package in darkness
assbot: Logged on 15-10-2015 18:40:47; mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> much better results are obtained with
taking more less wide shots + stitching << i wouild expect.
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> Does
ti have a countdown
timer? << and wires sticking out.
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> much better results are obtained with
taking more less wide shots + stitching << i wouild expect.
☟︎ ascii_field: after your hanging, ~somebody~ will have
to read'em...
shinohai: I don't doubt
that a real FBI agent might say
the same.
ascii_field: preferably smaller, cheaper, doesn't even need
to see in all directions if you have 50 of
them in
the box.