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mircea_popescu: might
as well be in 7 grade, "o look, jane got tits! how ridiculous jane is!11"
mircea_popescu: he chinese of the 70s trying to pretend the usians are bad BECAUSE of computers.
as if "computerization" is a bad thing in and of itself, not merely a natural evolution in which thosew guys happened to have got the drop on our guys.
mircea_popescu: and speaking of these latter : i wonder how many people realise that the us complaint with spanish administration in florida was that it's TOO LAX ?
as in, not oppressing the land nearly enough ? which is why they invaded.
Xplosionist: I mean, I'm very glad we have people that do it. Most of whom are actually nice and do a good job. But, wow, I would never want to deal with
as much crap
as you have to put up with fore that job.
☟︎ Xplosionist: "most unpleasant job" might be
as accurate.
Xplosionist: If you get a paycheque, that counts
as something I guss.
BingoBoingo: Right, Guardian just let it get forgot, presenting again
as "fresh"
mircea_popescu: sufficient time to continue processing your request and respond
as soon
as mircea_popescu: at the very least 2x
as firmly embedded
as the current nail.
mircea_popescu: for
as long
as it's not receiving in excess of 1 bn requests a year, the populace's failing at its chosen game
mircea_popescu: and didn't even ask for the receipt. which is good,
as he hadn't given me one.
mircea_popescu:
as it is right now, cash and tide are equally money (ie, not accepted
as tax payment), but one's useful and the other's paper.
mircea_popescu: no, irs has cash payment office, you go there and give them cash. that's "cash is accepted
as tax payment".
ascii_field: affected,
as were my regular home IP addresses). Apparent location of the user's IP address seemed to
mike_c: :) you're
as old
as me, how the hell do you read these things?
trinque: oh I overlooked that entirely
as well
davout: treating the hash
as compressed private key yields another address but still not the one i was expecting
funkenstein_: ascii i've been meaning to ask you, I always thought of england
as mordor... with orthanc in DC... am I missing something?
phf: pretty sure ascii will be going "wake me up when they find hitler"
as tmsr~ is hoisting the flag on Reichstag
PeterL: I find it interesting Bitbet still has both Bush and Rubio favored
as winning the nomination. They can't both win.
pete_dushenski: "The I.R.S., which accused Ms. Crile of underpaying her taxes by more than $81,000 from 2004 to 2009, argued that based on several factors, such
as her lack of a written business plan, her work
as an artist was “an activity not engaged in for profit” and that she could not claim tax deductions in excess of the income she made from her art."
pete_dushenski: "If you say you are an artist, but you make little money from selling your art, can your work be considered a profession in the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service? In a ruling handed down late last week by the United States Tax Court and seen by many
as an important victory for artists, the answer is yes."
shinohai: He strikes me
as the type of guy that would want me to pay him royalties just to quote him.
mircea_popescu: (How I got out of it is just
as far-fetched to most people
as the lies that put me in it in the first place.)
mircea_popescu: you're only in it for the money, why do more work for the same pay? F#@$ that. It would take things like morals and integrity to do the right thing in the juvenile system in this country; two of the many virtues this system has little to none of. Corrupt judges receiving kickbacks and facility owners buying jets and boats with money obtained by falsely imprisoning minors is all business
as usual in the juvenile justice
mircea_popescu: When it came down to it, they saw their choices
as either telling the truth and risk me being sent home or filing fake incident reports to keep me placed there. I was an easy check every month. The only work they had to do was write false incident reports and fill out some paperwork in order to get paid. If I were to be sent home I'd be replaced by a kid that would most likely have real and serious behavior issues. If
mircea_popescu: When I was 15-17 I was in DCFS custody for (honestly) "insubordinance". Don't ever underestimate the power of a sociopathic mom and a corrupt juvenile system. Eventually I found myself placed in a foster home under the pretext that I'd be on my way back home
as soon
as I "straightened up" and flew right. Among the many dozens of pathetic failings of the system I was now privy to, this post reminded me of one in particu
mircea_popescu: I will forgo any back story
as to why I was in the situation I was in. Just know that it involved an absent dad and one very bad, pathological liar of a mom.
mircea_popescu: is anything that doesn't admit a technological approach (such
as say, random number generation) obscurantist claptrap ?
mircea_popescu: yeah well. so now you can look upon teh priors
as such.
mircea_popescu: i diagnosed the patient's evaluatory mechanism
as terminated.
mircea_popescu: yeah, well, the problem is the broken brain that fails to comprehend how spoons work is also unsurprisingly going to incorrectly evaluate suicide
as an option.
mircea_popescu: and fire
as a class has not removed the option of keeping the bulk of your skin.
mircea_popescu: the existence of landlords
as a class is no more to their detriment than the existence of fire
as a phenomena.
HeySteve: but if someone uses the microwave
as a BBQ (happens here) then it's clear
HeySteve: but I wouldn't recommend it
as a carry trade destination
mircea_popescu: so let me get this straight, you want to give people too poor to litigate, too stupid / desocialized to talk to the landlord and too scared to act the option "you can either pay 100 to the landlord
as deposit or 300 to me and unlike the landlord I PROMISE to give it back (maybe), except im not anywhere near you and you can't burn my house down" ?
☟︎ pete_dushenski: HeySteve:
as high
as 6x << that's. bananas. and not the kind for practising deepthroats either.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
as a take-away : if you're depressed, before you try seroquel or whatever, try changing your lightbulbs.
mircea_popescu: a slush fund is money a government body, such
as an embassy, secret service, captured "business" runs to bribe people with.
mircea_popescu: (and they can do A LOT of damage with that, many jurisdiction have the notion of problem landlord in some manner, and you can often get treble damages, heck in one case a guy i know got the landlord kicked out of town.
as in, had to sell ALL his property and not buy there again, ever.)
HeySteve: also, landlords do compete for smart tenants with options,
as as per pete's point 1. so here is an aspect other than lowering prices which owners can use to attract good tenants (who can appreciate the benefits of "no" custodial risk).
mircea_popescu: skills would be uploaded straight by God when needed, sudden and immediate, just
as they came to JCVD in Bloodsport. Life is a movie and movies are only 90 minutes long. Not a whole lot of time for training.
mircea_popescu: so in this sense, finding shit in yourself is about
as valuable
as growing tomatoes on your window sill.
mircea_popescu: "She can't understand why the ideal isn't the same
as the average. So she wants to create reasons why the average is the ideal. " <<< Elizabeth Cashdan, woman in science.
ben_vulpes: i'm dinking around with clnuplot
as we speak, already seeing the end of its utility for me.
mircea_popescu: i'm playing it
as we speak, making congressional pulp.
PeterL: I still use my 2007 MacBook
as my only puter
mircea_popescu: (the reason is that mine's really the affirmative - the dictum masquerades a negative
as a pop-positive, is all)
assbot: Logged on 19-10-2014 18:31:23; asciilifeform: chetty: the whole purpose of 'biometric' crap is to administratively fix the designated chump
as the permanently-designated chump.
mircea_popescu: trying to package and sell stupidity
as racism is mostly a symptom of that same problem.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the argument is almost always presented
as "the glucose consumption picture in this guy's brain looks like THESE splotches of blue/yellow/whatever, therefore he's so-and-so like these other guys whose pictures look similar".
mircea_popescu: But more importantly, forensic brain scans represent the worst kind of classism. They say, essentially, that because your brain looks very similar to other brains, then you belong in that class; and you take on their other qualities. They may be appropriate for scientific investigations--
as early clues directing further research, "hey, this is interesting, let's look over here from now on"-- but they have no place i
mircea_popescu: "all of their tools live in the Web, that bloated, miserable heap of accidentally co-executing text-
as-sort-of-program."
mircea_popescu:
as to archeology : find a source. that is the only way archeology works. you must find someone who remembers the history.
trinque: potentially it would but not
as a rule
mircea_popescu: " you can support associative array lookups, appending to unbounded-size arrays, and the like,
as fundamental machine operations."
funkenstein_: <gabrielradio> i would like to have
as many kids
as possible, and ideally be involved
as little
as possible <-- perhaps you'd also like to have girlfriends, but never see or fuck them
assbot: Logged on 17-10-2015 00:48:53; pete_dushenski:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-10-2015#1300614 << hey nice ! i was looking at this one a few months back
as a potential victim for my rom-eng secret sauce machine. i think i might just take this translation
as a more than adequate starting point, clean it up, and post it :)
gabrielradio: just curious. i'm on the other end of the spectrum, i would like to have
as many kids
as possible, and ideally be involved
as little
as possible, maybe in their education or such
mircea_popescu: " It's obvious to anyone who has ever seen a boy that they appear,
as compared to a similarly aged girl, completely retarded."
mircea_popescu: Second, one might ask why this is happening to boys more than girls. It's obvious to anyone who has ever seen a boy that they appear,
as compared to a similarly aged girl, completely retarded. So it makes sense that affluent parents-- any parents-- who have the option, will redshirt their five year old boy and hope he gets another year of maturity under his belt so that-- and this is my point-- he can keep up with th
mircea_popescu: aha. it's particularly difficult in humans, because
as ben_vulpes observes, flesh.
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