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BingoBoingo:
<PeterL> I got my tax form from my previous emplyer yesterday, realized they had me down for 11 exemptions and withheld no fed taxes.
<< Shoulda made more children
assbot: Logged on 26-01-2016 16:05:04; mircea_popescu: "Some experts have said the field of artificial intelligence is currently experiencing something of a golden age, with deep-learning neural networks making advances in both speech and image recognition."
<< well, more like a qe age.
pete_dushenski: "In occasione della visita del presidente iraniano Hassan Rohani in Campidoglio sono state coperte da pannelli bianchi su tutti e quattro i lati alcune statue di nudi dei Musei Capitolini. La copertura sarebbe stata decisa come forma di rispetto alla cultura e sensibilità iraniana. Tanto che durante le cerimonie istituzionali non è stato servito nemmeno il vino."
<< "bow to your betters!" (tm) (r)
mircea_popescu:
<ascii_butugychag> mod6: that thing is worth more than my organs
<< typical alf. has collection of organs, complains about life.
mircea_popescu:
<pete_dushenski> hausmann has a story to tell about how and why poor countries suck, and it's not because they're untrained monkeys, it's because they need more phree airplanes or some shit
<<< venezuela is what happened after a gaddafi died of natural causes. yes the usg 5th column's unhappy that it has not yet been invited to save venezuela, they were predicting $$$ years ago.
mircea_popescu:
<thestringpuller> mircea_popescu: LOL Trace Mayer is critiquing
<< i have no idea who that is, but zhe'd better get with the program because i don't see a future for whatever wot she's in.
pete_dushenski: "Interestingly, countries in the developing world differ substantially in the amount of know-how they receive through business travel. For example, countries such as South Africa, Bulgaria, Morocco, and Mauritius receive much more know-how than countries at similar levels of development such as Peru, Colombia, Chile, Indonesia, or Sri Lanka."
<< probably time to reassess what "development levels" mean then eh.
pete_dushenski: "Ricardo Hausmann, a former minister of planning of Venezuela and former Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank, is Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at Harvard University, where he is also Director of the Center for International Development. He is Chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Meta-Council on Inclusive Growth."
<< peterl you think this guy's worried about tec
pete_dushenski: "More populous countries have more business travel in both directions, but the volume is less than proportional to their population: a country with 100% more population than another has only about 70% more business travel. This suggests that there are economies of scale in running businesses that favor large countries."
<< moar derps != more business. but impossibru !!1
pete_dushenski: "a country with a per capita income that is 100% higher than another receives 130% more business travelers and sends 170% more people abroad. This means that business travel tends to grow more than proportionally with the level of development."
<< or maybe it just means that your 'per capita' bullshit is literally a mean metric of no practical value, just like the "people" it purports to measure.
mircea_popescu: "Some experts have said the field of artificial intelligence is currently experiencing something of a golden age, with deep-learning neural networks making advances in both speech and image recognition."
<< well, more like a qe age.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
<BingoBoingo> Could publish peer reviewed tapes
<< except peers won't review tapes. because it's inept. oral tradition is unlike the written tradition in a fundamental way : it rejects the ~separation~ of knowledge and power. that sound familiar ?
assbot: Logged on 26-01-2016 07:07:34; BingoBoingo: From the mines: "There are some issues being filed concerning database corruptions in bitcoin core. Although the problem hasn't been pinpointed to LevelDB, the long-term plan is still to switch to a new, well maintained database."
<< A Hearnia continues
BingoBoingo: From the mines: "There are some issues being filed concerning database corruptions in bitcoin core. Although the problem hasn't been pinpointed to LevelDB, the long-term plan is still to switch to a new, well maintained database."
<< A Hearnia continues
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Quick Facts We rebel against the idea that modern software must be large and complex."
<< "we also rebel against the concept of a fact and sane prosody.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> any accumulator that doesn't principally occupy itself with ~forgetting~ rapidly collapses into a singularity of shitmass.
<< This has been the greatest challenge of sober living so far.
mircea_popescu: " My intuition is that this might even require fewer attempts than the original comparison assuming a reasonable password length, but I haven't done the math."
<< he's right actually.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "writing in much the same way many other religious persons in the American continent have done before and after them."
<< would be so much better with briefly discussed examples.
mircea_popescu: "The Zionists are so used to running American foreign policy for their own benefit and having the US Army take care of their enemies for them (Hussein, Gaddafi, Assad etc) that it was hilarious to watch Netanyahu throw a shit fit in the US Congress "
<< so far, the only army to ever win an engagement in the middle east is the israeli. twice.
mircea_popescu: "it's worth remembering Japan had been under a US oil embargo for years before they 'suddenly' attacked Pearl Harbor in '41. "
<< decent tidbits in there, under all the cheap "rapport" and assorted throwaway cancerous jokes.
mircea_popescu: That's why every time Obama deploys one of his cloned spokeswomen wearing the "problem glasses" to a White House press briefing
<< seriously. it's like gaddafi without taste.
mircea_popescu:
<copypaste> Rand wouldn't be a bad president, but Trump has more of the showmanship
<< maybe they name the USS Flagship "Hairpiece" after him.
BingoBoingo: "A central figure in the Trump-acceptance movement is former presidential nominee and Senate majority leader Bob Dole, the erstwhile Republican establishment standard-bearer who is now just another elderly person in Kansas."
<< Also former Viagra spokesman
BingoBoingo:
<thestringpuller> curvy girls have nice asses tho. the ones that look like they wanna bust out of a pair of yoga pants.
<< Those asses come from squats, not Beetus
PeterL: from BingoBoingo link to fat rant: "the look of horror that a thin, cis woman flashed me when she realized that she'd be sitting next to me"
<< What, a gay chick is going to be excited to cuddle up with fatty chunks for a couple hours? (and wtf is this text in image crap, can't even copy/paste!)
BingoBoingo:
<PeterL>
<BingoBoingo> peterL, Just gotta raise the river then
<< this works in narrow canyons, not so much on plains. You gonna build a 100 mile wide dam?
<< What else. Lots of ghetto to cover
PeterL:
<BingoBoingo> peterL, Just gotta raise the river then
<< this works in narrow canyons, not so much on plains. You gonna build a 100 mile wide dam?
mircea_popescu:
<BingoBoingo> peterL, Just gotta raise the river then
<< ideally, put it on a jack. "maybe i'll come down, maybe i won't. don't mess up my beer, man!"
mircea_popescu:
<punkman> does PRB need dbus btw?
<< it should, really.
BingoBoingo:
<jurov> hydropower means large lagoons that tend to acumulate toxic deposits that noone wants to touch. coal and nuclear mean radioactive toxic waste, too. while defunct windmill means piece of perfectly usable structural alloy.
<< How is this different from the Mississippi river at present?
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> ...
<< dude, i don't care if he gives away clinton's hairy snatch and the secret of immortality 45 minutes in. who the fuck has the time for this sorta thing.
<< Reddit commnets were lulzy. Didn't sonsider anyone would try listening or operate a browser capable of listening.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> also spurious paragraph break after 1st note
<< both fixed
mod6:
<+PeterL>
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-01-2016#1385014 << hydro power is proportional to water drop, you can't really get much power out of a flat river like missississippi
<< very true. the one we were discussing yesterday is at St. Anthonys Falls. Which apparently helped the city long ago get its start. Its not very big, and since they put in the dam, apparenlty this has eroded the origin
☝︎ mircea_popescu:
<jurov> since the 1950s the hydropower potential of Vah river in Slovakia was almost completely developed and exactly this happened, lakes brim-full of stuff noone knows how to dispose
<< this may be, but on the other hand romania exists as an industrial power rather than an argentinian farm shithole strictly because of massive hydro power developments post ww2
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> but wunderwaffen-warfare is ~largely~ this kind of thing.
<< quite very much so. and tlp's "frantic activity as a cover for impotence" explains a lot of it.
jurov: we are 53% nuclear, and another 2 blocks are in development,
<joke>it should result in cheapest electricity around
</joke>
mod6:
<+mircea_popescu> that'll be some pretty epic action movie.
<< haha, yah. oh well.
mircea_popescu: mod6> more study required.
<< yeah, up until a spinning blade worth 50 tons comes off the fucking 200 foot tall mount.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: re: toomim meltdown
<< it was hilarious to listen to, cuz he is just like "I'ma stoned. Hue hue hue. I developed consider.it and we gonna use it to fix bitcoin governance problems, cuz like democracy is the shit. And it like works."
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo ". The petrified paper pushers, afraid that actual strong cryptography might catch on among the cattle caste, has sent their favorite stooge to discredit the event."
<< have sent
mircea_popescu: assbot: Michael Toomin explains his meltdown, and the structure of Bitcoin Classic (45 min in!)
<< dude, i don't care if he gives away clinton's hairy snatch and the secret of immortality 45 minutes in. who the fuck has the time for this sorta thing.
mircea_popescu:
<punkman> I also don't get why i's on medium
<< because that's what altman's qntra is called.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> mega-unsurprise.
<< this "everyone can do it - you could be next - make 10 gazillion renting out the space inside your nose" narrative must be driven!!1