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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as discussed in the past - the various u.s. castes have, for reasons of their own (ask them!) decided never to live in walking distance of one another, if it can be helped
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: which part is stupid? most of these people couldn't hope to buy so much as a plastic&cardboard 'trabant' without massive credit
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: cars << another thing in usa. more or less everybody is condemned to be his own cabbie, and to some extent, mechanic
ThickAsThieves: <+thestringpuller> you know how I know you're not american mircea_popescu : you hate cars /// i cant stand driving and all the stuff about cars other than that they get me places
thestringpuller: you know how I know you're not american mircea_popescu : you hate cars
ThickAsThieves: <+mircea_popescu> ThickAsThieves 5 before back to 8 or w/e it does ? /// i think i figured out exactly what it does actually
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Almost seems like it doesn't it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fat rockets dropping on parachutes, self-aimed at tank turrets (see yesterday's film with ukrs clobbered by such. 1980s soviet product.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: empowering betas to be weird >> http://www.wired.com/2014/09/armys-new-laser-cannon-blasts-drones-out-of-the-sky-even-in-fog << e.g. this. yes, let's draw a ruler in the sky straight to own artillery position,
punkman: mircea_popescu: idea #1, kinda: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10911242/At-last-the-clothes-store-that-lets-you-shoplift-for-a-day.html
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: bimbo vest << in usa, we have 'bimba' - they make pneumatic & hydraulic pistons. ubiquitous.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/let-me-give-you-ideas/#comment-107457
punkman: mircea_popescu: you ever seen my huge copper round ? << I thought you'd pull out a dick pic right there
decimation: mircea_popescu: I don't think any plane would survive that test
decimation: mircea_popescu: well, the theory on that one blog is that because it has a parachute, inexperienced derps think they are invincible
decimation: mircea_popescu: as geenspun explains, it is a legitimate safety mechanism, but it doesn't make up for the apparently "comfortable" handling
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah the whole plane has a parachute
BananaLotus: thank you mircea_popescu :)
cazalla: mircea_popescu: give rakim a good job, i'll even return the nuke subs. <<< rakim is in jail http://i.imgur.com/jotYmaJ.png
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I don't remember if he was here or not
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu - if i recall you were once friends with xapo owner - ever asked him 'wtf' ?
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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: junkyard magnet.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://www.wisn.com/news/plane-that-took-off-from-waukesha-airport-crashes-into-ocean/27807596 << that one.
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n6: we sent a public key last night but the web ui says unrecognized public key when we try to deposit, where did we go wrong we encypted to mircea_popescu's key listend on the faq.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what italian film was it, where the director was charged with murder on account of a 'too realistic' stake scene? and had to bring in the still-alive actress, and demonstrate the magic trick - which involved a bike seat /
chetty: mircea_popescu, given the stuff you manage to recall, its a wonder you can cram your own name in there sometimes
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BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The Slate article is retarded but the premise where an NFL owner would do something like start buzz that their team's name is racist to pressure the city for a new stadium isn't unbelieveable
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Corrected http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/08/31/august-atc-results/
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: are there hot YC founders?
kakobrekla: <mircea_popescu> laxo trade looks remarkably scammy, for the record. < classic ponzi
FabianB: mircea_popescu: uh, looking
punkman: mircea_popescu: this guy ever write back to you? http://www.bloombergview.com/contributors/matt-levine
punkman: mircea_popescu: yeah I don't really follow his blog. but he's written a bunch on the topic
cazalla: mircea_popescu, not so much a blog but http://www.casinomeister.com/ is well trusted
cazalla: mircea_popescu, what about blockchain.info specifically, looking at the amount of wallets created and the demographic that uses web wallets, surely it isn't that high and ball parkable figure?
punkman: mircea_popescu: just looked it up
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu s.nsa chronicle - sent.
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thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: you ever play dwarf fortress
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I b0other them so the know their hitpoints later
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Join systemd again.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: In the linux standard base it is a user defined runlevel
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we call this 'добровольно- принудительно' ('voluntary-compulsory')
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> "we designed systemd with security in mind" << by now this is pretty much usable as-is, might as well be a protein binding site for pathogens. << Why not a still moar precarious binging site for understood drugs?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: And the mp's of yesteryear exalt blogs so much!
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: This talk of sweatship printing as a necessity, yes if everything is old trilems!
kakobrekla: <Azelphur> mircea_popescu: well if it was a job interview, I solved every single problem, including a pile of everybody elses, turned up at 9am in the morning and left at 8pm every day for a week, I don't think I could have been more perfect if I tried :P < yeah sometime being a jerk hels you not get stuff.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: That's an awfully chewy Trilema article
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: yea, I got this offer from ionCube anyway that I'm probably gonna take
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: I did say I would love a job at ownCloud quite clearly, I think they aren't looking to hire people tbh :)
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: When MpU is a thing, I'll keep your books from rotting
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: well if it was a job interview, I solved every single problem, including a pile of everybody elses, turned up at 9am in the morning and left at 8pm every day for a week, I don't think I could have been more perfect if I tried :P
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: that said I've got a job offer now anyway from elsewhere, it's not the greatest but it'll do for now
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: can't impress these people, learn C++ and port my shit from Python in 2 days...
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: oh, no, the tl;dr is that dropbox was annoying me so I switched to ownCloud, which annoyed me because it didn't have file browser integration, so I wrote it
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: I haven't really touched investments beyond sitting on bitcoin for a while now
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Because hate makes me feel alive
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Don't worry, I already mentioned the Federal task force looking over my plaintext shoulder in pm.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Just an acknowledgement of an encounter.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Just, Hey dudes, FBI showed up.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The curies were poles weren't they. Also the poles are pretty much all of the pale left in Chiraq
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Then why did the smart poles get that radiation poisoning
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i understand, the chinese 'wot' is their... genealogical tree. and i'm not certain that they'd see out wot as other than noise even were they to get out of that stage. (and why ought they) <<< this seems akin to saying poles are stupid, to me.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: systemd-ism explains the nigbuntu suck
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: On a spectrum.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> which is unclear who'd be. vesseneess is an asshole i wouldn't take the word of anyway, and nobody else is in charge there. << Prime case where I get 30x on my money but fear how the niggers spin it.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: He can answer. Maybe not well, but in the worst case he can repent
punkman: mircea_popescu: so who runs bitfinex now?
gribble: davout was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 2 weeks, 6 days, 21 hours, 4 minutes, and 42 seconds ago: <davout> ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-08-2014#791960 <<< interesting
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: You know, lazing about like sitcom New Yorkers.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: What are some more Argentine businesses plagued by Friends syndrome?
gernika: mircea_popescu ok I think I see your point, though it seems like colonialism within Africa would have been more influential in transferring technology, especially in Rhodesia, from where very few slaves probably originated or to where the educated descendants may have returned. Sierra Leone and Liberia, where a lot of descendants of slaves actually returned to are serious shit holes.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: To be fair I have great gains to make if the bet is resolved as yes, but... if such resolution makes muppets begin treating web documents as documents of record when they publich and maintain them... that would be a plus.
gernika: mircea_popescu dead. I mean subsaharan africans though.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: This is what happens when your first computer is an actual mac in 2000-2001
decimation: mircea_popescu: so you aren't a Platonist?
mthreat: <mircea_popescu> mthreat how did the exclusion clauses work in search agai ? // the minus sign excludes terms, e.g. wheat -chaff
X-Rob: mircea_popescu: lying and stubborn headedness isn't a disability.
X-Rob: Hah. mircea_popescu you may remember my diatribe about all the stupid design flaws in unattainium. I consider myself vindicated. http://i.imgur.com/HfH3kpV.png
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i understand, the chinese 'wot' is their... genealogical tree. and i'm not certain that they'd see out wot as other than noise even were they to get out of that stage. (and why ought they)
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: 'Вместо статуй будут урны - Революции культурной.' -- vysotsky's song about chicoms <<< dja haet chinese ppls or merely suspicious of anyone with slanty eyes ?