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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.
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: ben_vulpes: wai wut,
as if they were not bankrupt already long ago ?
mircea_popescu: so, if here the landlords rent out for 10 a month but you gotta pay 10 in advance "
as guarantee" and there they rent out for 11 a month but you don't,
mircea_popescu: aka, pay for all our sins,
as we can't afford to do it. and so you get godfathers, and get to enjoy the movie. that's his role in the community : that he pays your blodgelt for you.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: and when inheritance changes from male only to both children,
as it did in post fedual sicily, the obligation moves from her parents (
as he will inherit HIS parents but not hers) to "both parents" which quickly devolves into a sort of "what rich man in the comunity wishes to sponsor this festival"
mircea_popescu: this, so
as to prevent the young people from just burning the whole thing.
mircea_popescu: But having the same guys means that we'll be getting the same philosophies, the same filters, the same phrases. We are guaranteeing not just groupthink, but we're allowing others to decide what we're going to talk about, how we'll talk about it. That's why "gay marriage" will disappear not when gays can marry but when a new set of media people get jobs and "gay marriage" isn't
as interesting to them. The actual im
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 09:11:50; punkman: BingoBoingo: well
as you said, not sure if it's news. especially considering there's a dozen or three Ether clones with same exact story
mircea_popescu:
as to why not anal, firstly because you're probably too young and you'll move suddenly and jerkily like too young people do and hurt her ; and secondly because you live in the sticks and will give yourself an uti because you can't afford condoms ; and thirdly because you'e insane and who the fuck knows what nonsense you'll do with it (the us porn people are a fine example with their anal desinfectants and bleaching and
mircea_popescu: "why anal ?" is in the same vein
as "why go to school". because, obviously, "whoever likes me will like me for me
as i am!!1"
HeySteve: Dear Steven, Thank you for your enquiry around the Fold app. We are not currently looking at virtual currency apps
as we are focused on creating a local Starbucks app that will bring a richer online experience to our customers. Thank you for your interest. Regards, Diana
BingoBoingo: Basically only US legal because the scamception involved lets league stakholders pass it off to congress
as a "skill game" and not gambling even though it is scammy gambling
BingoBoingo: pete_duskenski has been great with this
as has thestringpuller, this thing is here, for some definitions of queer it is that, and it isn't going away anytime soon
punkman: BingoBoingo: well
as you said, not sure if it's news. especially considering there's a dozen or three Ether clones with same exact story
☟︎ HeySteve: I did question the folks opening up Starbucks about whether they'll accept the Fold app
as in like 10 other countries
HeySteve: it's about Bitcoin but
as non-technical
as it gets
BingoBoingo: bagels7: You know Brian in you skull only accepts two carbohydrates
as fuel. Glucose and good old ETOH
BingoBoingo: bagels7: Maybe focus on staying human sized?
As a t-girl that is the bulk of your value proposition, not being an obeast.
BingoBoingo: Having a cock still isn't
as bad for a girl
as being Obeast bagels7
mircea_popescu: ballas decides "the guy is narcissist". this is about
as clever
as discussing the rotator splint of wild geese. "hey, they're flying, right ? gotta have rotator splint, it's what you call the collar bone"
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 recall my father so po
☟︎ mircea_popescu: because i don't now,
as i didn't in 2013, understand this.
mircea_popescu: more importantly : the entire malleability / bip 62 / sipa chjanges (such
as linked) are 2013 material.
ascii_field: for so long
as openssl, bdb, are in the mix, the bug mine is bottomless.
mircea_popescu: the idea is, at no point should it have made anything else anyway, at least
as far
as anyone knew.
ascii_field: anyway in usa it is a very simple matter,
as described by herr orlov: near-everybody there is 2 or 3 missed paycheques away from hobo-dom.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: this is
as interesting
as computing the odds of being chinese.
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'
mircea_popescu: ok, you've seen it, but chipping heroin is one thing ; cocaine
as powder and
as crack is a rather different thing.
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."
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
jurov: it started
as wiki based on plain .txt files
mircea_popescu:
as a last ditch before going "fuck this shit, all our things are to be held on zombie computers"
ascii_field: process, much
as i am loathe to admit it, would have to involve an airplane and a trip to some godforsaken pesthole.
mircea_popescu: it turns out that this is not true : "commodified market" actually means that there is no market - you can either not have a server and think you don't have a server ; or else not have a server and think you have a server. those two, no third and sure
as fuck no having servers.
ascii_field: and, to the extent it is used
as popularly imagined ('two parties with no prior relation') easily mitmable and impossible to use
as intended even in principle.
assbot: The Philippines Is Still Pissed Off That Canada Is Using It
as a Giant Garbage Bin | VICE | United States ... (
http://bit.ly/1OFrrcb )
mircea_popescu: If Hess has made you wonder, hmm, maybe unrestricted anonymity is bad because it gives trolls too much power, then the system has successfully used her for its true purpose: brand it
as bad, to you. She is unwittingly teaching the demo of this article, e.g. women in their 20s with no actual power looking to establish themselves, who are the very people who should embrace anonymity, not to want this: only rapists and to
mircea_popescu: and THEN they wanna be all "successful", or perceived
as such, because hey, of the 5000 of them, one's necessarily gonna dribble in the general direction of future events by sheer happenstance - that's your successful dude!11
mike_c: yes, but shit metaphorically is not
as bad
as shit actually.
mike_c: they do, and the oil is annoying, but it doesn't smell
as bad.
ascii_field: mike_c: cars (at least
as seen in usa) ~do~ shit on the street
davout: punkman: wow, the foundation vs. inc thing does sound scammy
as fuck. in addition to the business model itself that is :D
punkman: might
as well be "viral marketing" from the studio that runs that
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Story is in Crowdfunders are now recast
as "software licensees"
mircea_popescu: here's the thing : cargo cult is what savages / pacific islanders / subhuman monkeys do
as a reaction to exposure to actual hjuman beings and their civilisation.
mircea_popescu: i'm still here, they
as individuals are not. but they
as group are still here. perhaps to outlast me.
mircea_popescu: look, let's go at it this way. in your own private experience,
as a witness, how many times did a horde of idiots on some idiot forum know better than me ?
mircea_popescu: "hey, maybe we should use linux, it's cheaper". sure,
as a red herring for "red hat", which is not linux.
mircea_popescu: your wife's cunt costs 0. teen poon costs... how much does it cost ?
as alf says "might
as well me from mars."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform iirc he went to work
as an exeprty in fucking teens for the fbi afterwards.
mircea_popescu: speaking of nothing related, anyone recall the original patrick naughton trial ? compuserve exec, flew to La to meet a 40yo FBI agent that had been posing
as a 13 yo girl in a dads&daughers sex chatroom. hung jury : all women voted to convict ; all men voted he;s innocent.
mircea_popescu: in the world where women cook
as a matter of course, cooking is MORE EXPENSIVE than in the world where cooking would be "absolutely" less expensive but women would kill themselves if you allowed them in a kitchen
mircea_popescu: He starts out
as a young academic. He lands a spot in a research group that studies X, so he studies X, later he branches out into X+Y, or goes to Z, etc, eventually he finds himself a niche. And he believes in that niche, he believes in his data, no matter what it says. You can't convince him he's wrong because it isn't science and it isn't even a bias-- it's identity.
mircea_popescu: and for that matter he had
as much mandate to start a war
as lincoln did.
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 23:10:19; pete_dushenski: wtf is this 'irrespective of their cognitive abilities' nonsense ?
as if everyone in the world were equally stupid, and therefore equally intelligent, and therefore had equal rights and so on and so forth ?
pete_dushenski: might
as well get it over with, burn the mess down already. but no, too stupid. too much 'hope'.
pete_dushenski: wtf is this 'irrespective of their cognitive abilities' nonsense ?
as if everyone in the world were equally stupid, and therefore equally intelligent, and therefore had equal rights and so on and so forth ?
☟︎ brg444: yep. was unheard of. kid was probably pulling more ratings on ESPN then this baseball game on now
as a senior.
pete_dushenski: brg444 i remember watching him for the first time, while in a hotel room in mexico
as it happens, during his senior year (of high school!) in the slam dunk competition. he was simply monumental. and i remember saying "watch out for this kid" without really knowing jack shit about pro bball
brg444: Minor, too, predicts that bitcoin
as a currency “will get destroyed.” He likens the coin’s current market cap—about $3.7 billion—to “an accounting mistake or rounding error that Bank of America makes.”
shinohai: I can't offer any such help
as I too am under the thumb of the SS.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you can touch it just
as soon
as you get out of nazi state.
mircea_popescu: there's also a bunch of large-ish stand-alone items, such
as the gossipd (which might still be done by artifexd, haven;t heard from him for a while) and a proper redesign of pgp
mircea_popescu: The fact that the experiment failed didn't stop The New Yorker from trying to portray Wolfowitz
as a jerk anyway, even though his performance theoretically showed that he was not a jerk, by the outcome measure of the study. They even commissioned a caricature of Wolfowitz to accompany the article, because, well, he's a jerk, of course. No matter what science says."
shinohai: At first I though of making a giant paper-machie forhead and going
as Vitalik Buterin, but it kept collapsing. :/
shinohai: I'm going to paint "Dumb ideas and bankrupt companies" onto a briefcase and dress up
as a VC for Halloween.
mircea_popescu: ". There's a legitimate concern that sauntering into a polling booth dressed like something out a low-budget nightmare might actually be trivializing or mocking the experience of those Canadian women who face regular harassment (or worse)
as part of their religious devotion"
mircea_popescu: "I know they're billing it
as a stand for women's rights, but that would be more convincing if they weren't also selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, hadn't shuttered 75 percent of the country's Status of Women offices, and weren't shrugging off the more than 1,200 Indigenous women who have been missing or murdered in Canada since 1980."
☟︎ punkman: attempts such
as: “I was on the phone with him and he got out of the car” because the carbon monoxide was working, she said. She added that she “told him to get back in.”
diana_coman: alternatively it might simply be that I just hate translating - I'd much rather rewrite the thing in my own words
as an exercise in understanding it
diana_coman: I must admit that I kind of hate doing translation work
as I find it horribly time consuming