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mircea_popescu: they prolly have a secret word for it
too, like fags in 1950 ny.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i presumed
they were chip-able in a certain manner.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform xbox is genuinely WORTH 2k of
today's watered down dollare.
BingoBoingo: "Donelson’s Land of Lincoln steer sold for a record $61,000
to
the highest bidder, Governor Bruce Rauner."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i ran a month or so of a similar
thing mostly out of curiosity if
this happens. notrly.
BingoBoingo: I see no other outcome.
This isn't even artmarket altcoins which... Don't expire when
the pig goes
to slaughter.
mircea_popescu: to
the very common "but you gotta play", seen at work for instance by
the people who
think
they HAVE
to
take a mortgage, or buy a diamond ring, or go
to college, or so on.
mircea_popescu: at any rate,
this is a very vast
thing, it unites
the mentioned "when hiring fortune
teller - hire cheapest"
mircea_popescu: my reading
the magazine above is exactly in same degree and exactly
the same kind, "recklessness".
assbot: Logged on 14-11-2014 19:46:44; asciilifeform: 'C: What I want
to suggest
to you is
that it was recklessness, utter recklessness, in view of
the conditions
mircea_popescu: in
that case, what
the guy did was
the actual minimal path.
trinque: goes right
to "nobody could've forseen" by way of "they did all
they could" because
they exhausted
the rulebook
mircea_popescu: also
the notion
that "anything's an option once all
the scripts yield in predictable failure" is hard
to maintain
trinque: my dad's a pilot; it's astounding how much scripted behavior
they have
to internalize
trinque: right, merely selecting one from
the procedure book
mircea_popescu: but no...
they "had
to
take off", because
trained experts, and being
trained means not
thinking of all alternatives.
mircea_popescu: fuck it, so it runs out of runway, runs
through
the airport fence, runs out into
the fucking street.
mircea_popescu: specifically,
the correct move
there would have been
to cut all engines, engage all brakes (including
the chute) and read a magazine.
mircea_popescu: trinque i am not an expert in airflight security, or a pilot or anything. nevertheless, it's my opinion
that
this is a fine example of what
thinking in a box is and what it gets you.
trinque: mircea_popescu | so
they
took
the passengers back
to hotel. directly. << lol!
mircea_popescu: previous flight lost an engine foil, concorde ran it over, it cut a wheel, wheel exploded, large fragment of
tyre hit underwing, shockwave broke a fuel
tanker, fuel gushed out and caught, engineer cut
the engine next, at which point
they had 2km worth of runway left and needed 3
to abort.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: btw, anyone know
the rather epic story of
the only concorde crash
to date ?
mircea_popescu: and so would you.
this entire "give boys letters"
thing is dumb.
mircea_popescu: i lived a much better life of
the spirit when i lived it among nude whores on sets, and plastic women making a point of being stupid
mircea_popescu: you live in fucking reddit republic and pretend it ends at
the door.
trinque: chick looks like
that and knows what a computer is; what's wrong?
mircea_popescu: her.
tell me
that if you had
to share your lab you'd have a problem sharing it with her.
mircea_popescu: because enthusiasm beats anything else nine
times out of seven.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i would much rather fuck a plastic cyborg created out of
the desire of
the short yellow people
to fit in with white civilisation
than an actual scion of
the latter.
mircea_popescu: heh dude wtshit already. nobody cares what "people in
the community" etc. bitcoin is fucking money.
mircea_popescu: "They have made good public presentations
that only serve
to enhance Bitcoins image. Due
to factors like
these, various ppl within
the community will
take an interest in
their POV."
mike_c: question I don't expect an answer
to: how does mpex handle
the gpg processing?
gribble: williamdunne was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 6 days, 21 hours, 26 minutes, and 10 seconds ago: <williamdunne> mircea_popescu: Relieve pressure by ranting on a blog? Sounds like it could work. I'll have another look at
the incubators
trinque: I have a feeds module at
the ready.
trinque: are we
to
the point where we give up on scoopbot yet?
mats: isn't
that
the outfit gavin worked for?
BingoBoingo: Why Shenzen and not
the Democratic Congo of Ferguson?
mats: but hey, you'll be real popular. chinese people love
to practice english on white folk.
mircea_popescu: all it
takes is me wanting
to. which, granted, high fucking bar.
mats: crowded,
terrible air, you don't speak chinese, you'll never be chinese, inscrutable local politics
mircea_popescu: anyway - not my fault
the concorde lapsed without replacement. imo
THAT is
the end point of white civilisation.
assbot: Logged on 24-08-2015 15:42:43; mike_c: so what, I'm stuck with bash scripts? how
to use
the fking
thing?
mircea_popescu: what, not like
they don't let him in without conf invite lol
gribble: Bitfinex BTCUSD
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mike_c: only 17 hours in
the air.
mike_c: 22 hours from jfk
to shenzen. ouch.
mircea_popescu: teen enjoys geeky show, decides
to give herself
tits. only
thing uncommon is
that she had
the guts
to
take control. otherwise...
mircea_popescu: either
that or skipping a year. i'm not doing another one in b-a. you've seen it all. literally.
assbot: Logged on 24-08-2015 09:42:08; cazalla: punkman, from
that post "Traditionally
the wife controls family finance. Husband
turns over paycheck and wife gives husband allowance." fuck
that
mats: i can't even afford
to go myself :P
mircea_popescu: it was originally interesting, "check it out,
the kitsch version of us collapse, 20 years early" but eventually one has enough.
☟︎ fluffypony: apparently you're not allowed
to institute such safety measures in a DC
mircea_popescu: honestly i've been
tempted by shenzen for a while now.
assbot: Logged on 24-08-2015 09:21:40; wyrdmantis: ;;later
tell mircea_popescu so why l2 cache is relevant? give me a hint, please.
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: well we need
to be more certain