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pete_dushenski: trying
to make sense of
this. seems like good qntra material.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: you around ? can you educate me on what
the nytimes is referring
to here : "The schematics, prosecutors said, revealed
the design of a device known as a pocket heater.
The equipment is used in semiconductor research, and Dr. Xi had signed an agreement promising
to keep its design a secret."
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "The evidence suggests
the legislation significantly increased
the incidence of looting and
the incidence of violence against civilians by at least 291 and 143 percent respectively."
pete_dushenski: "Using geo-referenced data, we find
the legislation increased looting of civilians, and shifted militia battles
towards unregulated gold mining
territories.
These findings are a cautionary
tale about
the possible unintended consequences of boycotting natural resources from war-torn regions, and
the use of international resource governance interventions."
pete_dushenski: "There is widespread belief
that violence in poorly governed countries is
triggered by international demand for
their natural resources. We study
the consequences of U.S. legislation grounded in
this belief,
the “conflict minerals” section of
the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act.
Targeting
the eastern Democratic Republic of
the Congo, it cuts funding
to warlords by discouraging manufacturers from sourcing
tin,
tungsten,
pete_dushenski: ^ what a cool million buys in
the used car market
these days.
pete_dushenski: @realDonaldTrump: "I would like
to extend my best wishes
to all, even
the haters and losers, on
this special date, September 11th."
pete_dushenski: me and youtube, gmail, and facefraud. oh
the company i keep.
shinohai adds pete_dushenski
to
the sponsors of
terrorism list.
trinque shoves
the barge
that once was a mailserver seaward, fires a flaming arrow, salutes
assbot: No, dropping lowest-priority
tx (in
the event of a spam attack) is not better
than dropping random
transactions - in fact, it's a lot worse. Peter
Todd is full of shit on
this one. Here's why. : bitcoinxt ... (
http://bit.ly/1Q7Af95 )
pete_dushenski: tumlrinas also need a lot of 'food', doesn't seem
to be an issue
shinohai: ^Guarantee
they will go bankrupt
trying
to find enuf cloth
to fit all
the fat-ass feminists.
mircea_popescu: "It’s easier
than you
think
to attract
this offensive, sexist label – all you have
to do is dare speak out against gender inequality"
mircea_popescu: not
their fault you persist in living in a counbtry whichg has decided "coding will work like art works!!1"
mircea_popescu: i know bunches of late 20s earlky 30yos with insurance for
the shiot
they make
mircea_popescu: they won't do custom jobs for items worth less
than maybe 100k or so, but
then again fuck you, nobody is going
to insure your chewwed gum
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> phun phakt: most american 'home insurance' co. will specifically ~not~ insure any item you built yourself << of course
they will.
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin
to
top $400 before January 2016 :: 4.55 B (18%) on Yes, 20.27 B (82%) on No | closing in 3 months 1 week| weight: 61`576 (100`000
to 1) ... (
http://bit.ly/1Q7xNzw )
pete_dushenski: ;;later
tell kakobrekla please
to point
trinque
to >1btc bitbet rss feed (if it exists)
mircea_popescu: how exactly did
the russky govt manage
to steal a .org ?
shinohai: Items in my safe are insured, but
that was
too much
trouble for what I am guessing was methheads.
pete_dushenski: for
those unawares,
TD Canada
Trust is one of
the 'big 5' banks in canada
pete_dushenski: from a meatwoter : "Also on a completely unrelated note,
TD now prevents me from visiting contravex at work."
shinohai: All
they got was a cruddy old laptop worth abt $200, wasn't insured.
ascii_field: shinohai: some insurance companies will not officially recognize
the fact of
theft, vandalism, etc. without a police case #
shinohai: I got called an idiot for not calling
the cops when my house got broken into yesterday.
ascii_field: (sorta like what
they would like
to make in usa, instead of all
the disjoint local police forces)
trinque: obviously pussy riot is resisting
through culture with
this domain
ascii_field: crush(p); //Use
the function crush in Dworkin.Xir
to discard
the oppressor
mircea_popescu: beat
the shit of
the romanians, who
tried same but failed utterly.
mircea_popescu: they did a good job actually copying
the principles not merelyt
the objects,
turn out perfectly passible items now.
mircea_popescu: ftr,
the estonians got really great at "fake ancient furniture".
mircea_popescu: ascii_field wut ?! bathroom was
the size of
that room o.O
ascii_field searched, in vain, for people on
the street with square arses
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: go give ben_vulpes a unix and laptop co-designed with it,
then he can
throw away
the crapple
shinohai: I am also pleased
to see
that dogecoin seems
to be declining.
That scam sure had some steam.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field
the "apparently care" you propose has a name.
mircea_popescu: "someone pointed out
to mp what
that shit's been doing while nobody was looking"
ascii_field: hell, some perfectly literate folks, ben_vulpes,
trinque, et al, care.
ascii_field: the billion lusers who buy
the
thing, apparently care
mircea_popescu: derplet's got
these feelings almost like he's a
thing, "i am a
tractor, it makes no sense i can't pull odwn
this wall, please explain mechanics
to it!"
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 17:28:23; ascii_field: 'Please inform Mr.
Toom about
the grading system and instruction methods of
THIS country.:.. I earned a grade of A in my college algebra and
trigonometry courses so it makes no sense for me
to be doing so poorly in
this course. Please straighten
this man out.'
mircea_popescu: it does "something" and for as long etc, i'll fail
to understand why it remains a
thing.
mircea_popescu: your argument strikes me of
the same exceptionalism "medicine" of 1700 employed. or "religion" of 1800.
ascii_field: ben_vulpes can prolly explain much better
than i can
ascii_field: it actually does something. it is useful
to understand ~what~.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: for so long as you
think
this, you will catastrophically misunderstand why apple remains a
thing
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i dunno, women i know hate
the inept cocksure ones more
than
the neurotic pay-for-it ones
ascii_field: and only
the most desperately repulsive subset, even
mircea_popescu: spiral of defeat. a) woman goes out, meets a buncha schmucks ; b) woman starts charging ~100 per dinner date, ensuring
that... she will now ONLY meet
the schmucks.
trinque: cazalla: yep, back up now; as long as
they are
that responsive I'm pleased
ascii_field: because
there is no (from
the perspective of
the aficionados) remotely credible alternative.
ascii_field: the
thing about apple is
that it can live for a very, very long
time even with all internal organs removed
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 20:38:49; *:
trinque signs up for fastmail... fastmail goes down :''( fastmailstatus.com
shinohai: Which would you rather have, $700 or a device
that you charge $50 for and people keep inserting coins in
to use?
ascii_field: (this is forbidden in eu, iirc, usa-only
trick)
mircea_popescu: "as long as
the state agrees it's 700, doesn't jack shit matter what
they do"
ascii_field: folks pay a few hundy and
telco covers
the rest in exchange for binding contract for n years
ascii_field: most iphonists don't even know what
the
thing costs
to buy fair & square