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mircea_popescu: <punkman> seems pretty hopeless << actually some derpy "artists" were airing
this nonsensical scheme a few years ago. it basically reduces
to "isn't it unfair
that only some 6/7 chicks get
to pretend like
they're artists on daddy's dime ? why shouldn't i have a daddy like
that!"
mircea_popescu: <punkman> oh wow ebay now has chinese 420-800mm lens for 50 bucks << aha. and for all
the pretense of
the swiss from 20 years ago, 2015 800mm chinese lens beats 1985 zeiss lens.
fluffypony: cazalla: I work with wildlife fire and rescue and
the local anti-poaching groups
cazalla: or is it
the norm for secular jews
to maintain
their foreskin?
☟︎☟︎ cazalla: pete_dushenski, you snipped? (circumcision questions got
the better of my curiosity
tbh)
punkman: something like: get average salary stats for (degree, company, job
title etc), match
those up
to resumes, pretend like derp getting degree matches
the model
punkman: I worked on a project
that involved predicting future student income for such purposes couple years back.
punkman: "Beginning in 2016, University President Mitch Daniels wants
to allow private investors
to invest in
the success of Purdue students using a new financial model: Income Share Agreements (ISA)."
punkman definitely spent more
time looking at windows
than space
punkman: fluffypony: big lens is
too expensive, better get a small
telescope
mats: I
think some care should be
taken
to minimize passive voice usage in future pieces
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 23:10:57;
trinque:
tax avoidance is a foolish move if you're dealing in
their currency
mats: BingoBoingo: re: bip-101-syndicate-shares-fiat-ties-opposition-to-actual-bitcoin some corrections: '... damning VC behind
the [reins]', some commas here: 'Goldman Sachs, purely fiat institution, is a majority shareholder of Moneygram, a cash ...'
fluffypony: I'd get WAY better shots from a DSLR with a
telephoto zoom lens
fluffypony: and
there's no way I'm spying on anyone's shower
BingoBoingo: Really
that's what seperates "good" and "bad" schools nowadays
mircea_popescu: cheaper
than any initiative
to retain athletes
they could come up with
mircea_popescu: sane uni admin would just hire a few dozen models
to walk around
the campus nude all day.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i guarantee you 90% of campus drone usage is
to
take shower pic of
the 3 not-obese females per campus.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as part of
the perennial hate of ru in ro, "Shura-Bura" is how you say "utter nonsense"
mircea_popescu: i forgot
this world exists where "download" = "here's a binary"
mircea_popescu: "AutoHotkey (AHK) is a free, open-source macro-creation and automation software for Windows
that allows users
to automate repetitive
tasks."
mircea_popescu: it arbitrarily decided
to round all delays
to
the integer second.
mircea_popescu: in "random news from stupid island" : xmacro is pretty much
the only workable linux keyboard/mouse emulator.
mircea_popescu: "despite
the objections from Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia." << romania ignored
the soviets
throughout, decided
to make its own.
they... sucked.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally it occurs
to me - one
theory
that'd very well fit
the soviet ibm insanity would be, "the captive
thief". ie, a guy so enamoured with
the idea
that "this calculator is hot (ie, stolen)"
that he'll gladly expend $1500
to get a shitty pocket calculator, instead of $1100
to get a 10x as powerful desktop.
mircea_popescu: i guess
that's what half
the country
tis doing anyway so...myeahk
mircea_popescu: in
that sense might as well just endorse your paycheck
to obama and forgetdaboutit
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's part of
the US department of words really don't mean anything anymore
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo makes 0 sense
to me, seeing how you already paid
tax on it, but
then again i don;t live
there
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform putin's fighting hard with himself
to stay away
the harvoscow.
assbot: Logged on 03-03-2014 22:19:37; mircea_popescu: matheny needs
to be out of a job.
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 23:53:24; mircea_popescu: and no stack's not fucking germane. he was
trying
to insulate HIS INCOME. i was discussing optimizing YOUR EXPENDITURE. not like items.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 05:34:43; mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> and just about everybody, right, left, center, happily buying in. << i'm buying in because i do not believe local resistence is a good idea.
the whole
thing should burn, and pockets of sanity just make
the burn last longer and hurt more.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 05:33:47; mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> orlov fellates
the boston harvaprinceyaleton liberast-wing-usg orthodoxy <<< and moscow does not ? puhleaze.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 05:38:14; mircea_popescu: "Mastering
the operating system of
the IBM-360 will require 2200 man-years and 700 workers. "
mircea_popescu: "Mastering
the operating system of
the IBM-360 will require 2200 man-years and 700 workers. "
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> and just about everybody, right, left, center, happily buying in. << i'm buying in because i do not believe local resistence is a good idea.
the whole
thing should burn, and pockets of sanity just make
the burn last longer and hurt more.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> orlov fellates
the boston harvaprinceyaleton liberast-wing-usg orthodoxy <<< and moscow does not ? puhleaze.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform>
then he deleted
the whole
thing. <<
the
truly damning part.
BingoBoingo: Also my
team was playing one of asciilifeform's local
teams. Washington DC lost.
mircea_popescu: a
tiny group of second rate
twerps
THAT KNOW
they're second rate band
together, and because
the world is so sick on
this "everyone's equal" jizz,
they can't be repressed effectually.
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> "Contrary
to
the myth
that 97% of climate scientists believe we are headed
toward a man-made climate doom,
the
truth is
that a very small group of second rate climate scientists have captured
the attention of some prominent political and media figures. " <<<
this is how "gamergate" happened
too, and everthing else. "race relations", "gender issues", you name it.
mircea_popescu: "progress" means, smaller contingents of anything useful as
time goes by.
mircea_popescu: think in
terms of "talented soccer players" or anything else, it's
the exact same story.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not replenishable because
the natural rate of decay
through aging is negative. ie, su shittifies like everything. if in 2000 it could produce 0.0001% of population, in 2020 it can produce only 0.0000965%. as population itself declines,
the natural size of
the
thing shrinks. 10k in 2000, 9972 in 2001 etc.
BingoBoingo: Oh, I come back from
the baseball game and asciilifeform has some leads for me
to qntra mebbe
pete_dushenski: except people who actually give a shit have never had better
tools at
their disposal
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform:
the line-up
to be a merc ~on us soil~ must be shallower
than obama's veil of intelligence
pete_dushenski: bah.
the more valuable chain wins. in whose eyes
though, i can't say
pete_dushenski: it's not clear
to me
that
the fedcops are enjoying such a sterling reputation
these days
assbot: A detailed review of
the book: ‘A Disgrace
to
the Profession’, by Mark Steyn | Watts Up With
That? ... (
http://bit.ly/1VviPqz )
pete_dushenski: sounds like judge who released mass murderer free and clear because cops obtained evidence poorly, only
to have murderer continue spree
pete_dushenski: "Contrary
to
the myth
that 97% of climate scientists believe we are headed
toward a man-made climate doom,
the
truth is
that a very small group of second rate climate scientists have captured
the attention of some prominent political and media figures. "
pete_dushenski: "Basically, Mann had mined many series of numbers looking for hockey stick shapes and gave each series
that had
the shape he wanted a much higher weight, up
to a weighting factor of 392!"
pete_dushenski: "As noted above it was an extraordinary claim, yet it was accepted instantly without checking it.
This had
the effect of destroying
the credibility of
the IPCC and
the previously respected publication Nature."
pete_dushenski: "The hockey stick
told us
that
the recent warming period (1950
to 1998) was unusual in
the last
thousand years and
that
this sort of sudden warming had (supposedly) never happened before and
that man’s CO2 emissions were (presumably)
the cause."
mats: I am considering how
to word
the
terms of a bet regarding
the fall of Baghdad in a year's
time
mircea_popescu: they got 5-10k elite, and
they're playing heroes of might and magic with
them around
the map. because even one lost is a horribru disaster. not replenishable.