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assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 15:25:24; BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> i somehow suspect less than 1 in 500/15 young men die within 5 years.
<< Aha. The scam is rates to renew policy gradually increase up until 40-50 years of age and then insurance company is all "lol, nope" which makes derps wonder where "affordable" life inurance went when they had no such thing before. Customer backloads their risk, insurance company frontloads theirs and whoever quits
punkman: thestringpuller: adlai: didn't that happen with fight club as well?
<< I thought epilogue of the book was better than movie ending
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> i somehow suspect less than 1 in 500/15 young men die within 5 years.
<< Aha. The scam is rates to renew policy gradually increase up until 40-50 years of age and then insurance company is all "lol, nope" which makes derps wonder where "affordable" life inurance went when they had no such thing before. Customer backloads their risk, insurance company frontloads theirs and whoever quits the game of chicken first wi
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<mircea_popescu> makes 0 sense. to be paid 500k when you die, even starting as a 20yo man you'd have to do at least 500 bucks a month in premiums.
<< Such deal are typically "term" policies expiring in 5 years
pete_dushenski: "If you make it half a million you just happen to be at the cusp of what the scum perceives as "Oprah rich" and they just almost kinda go for it,"
<< coinkidink of coinkidinks, the token insurance salesman in my choir has recently set his eyes on me and yesterday pitched me EXACTLY 500k of life insurance coverage in exchange for $25/mo.
pete_dushenski: "why is it that you expect your boyfriend introduce you to his friends ?"
<< missing a 'to', mircea_popescu ?
gribble: mats was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 week, 3 days, 3 hours, 42 minutes, and 16 seconds ago:
<mats> rolling off the cheeks of the slaves doncha know
pete_dushenski: "Google received more than 65 million removal requests for search results containing alleged copyright violations in the space of the past month."
<< in other nyooz, the equivalent of vw's emissions bypassing tech is pirating musak so many times that the 'regulator' just throws up his arms in dismay and walks out the door without saying another word, never to return.
pete_dushenski: " the Industrial Revolution began in Europe, rather than in China, because European employers were forced to pay more for labor. Since labor was more expensive, companies invested in technology, which then raised productivity so much that it boosted wages even higher,"
<< this is actually just lulzy
pete_dushenski: . In the past, automation has always complemented human beings instead of making them irrelevant. That might change in the future, but so far the old pattern is still holding."
<< mr. 'noahpinion' on the history of innovation, in a nutshell, and pretty much straight from his 'social studies 10' textbook. because that's where facts come from : the dumb mouths of high school teachers and the sputum-cum-textbooks t
gribble: brendafdez was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 34 weeks, 5 days, 7 hours, 24 minutes, and 3 seconds ago:
<brendafdez> mircea_popescu it works now. Anyway the IP I'm on now is one of a public AP, it shouldnt be whitelisted. I'll later give you my home IP, and BingoBoingo has my VPS IP already. I didn't know you were filtering.
BingoBoingo:
<kakobrekla> have a pic from 2012 when vision still worked hold on
<< That's some pig
punkman: trinque: could pick up food in their palms them eat
< they don't need extra finger for that
mircea_popescu:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WildMassGuessing << this is pretty interesting. the idea being, and i cite, "The trope has also become increasingly important in more traditional fiction as of late because the Internet's technological revolution is such that an author's "twists" could easily be predicted ahead of time if enough clever fans put their heads together and talk things over. (And over.) "
mod6:
<+danielpbarron> mod6, you selling it?
<< sure. atm ive got my hands full tho. maybe in like 30-45 mins?
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> weren't h a grunt in ww1 ?
<< Ambulance driver?
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> o ffs. japanese whiskey ?
<< I knew I picked a good time to try sobriety
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> dude get the fuck out, missouri has a park with a view.
<< Truefax. There's even a tiny tram you can ride to the top of the Arch for more view
mircea_popescu:
<kakobrekla> as it stands now, all ''german manufacturers' are using 'us tech' and no 'us tech firm' is using a 'german manufacturer'
<< you ever looked in the parking lot of these "tech giants" ?
assbot: Logged on 22-11-2015 17:09:00; thestringpuller: "the wrath of alfdog"
<< great name for a hip hop album
trinque: "because SQL"
<< and now we're back to me writing a CL RDBMS
trinque: mircea_popescu │ kakobrekla no but seriously, i'm at least partly here to learn, so what functionality is it ? like a good example.
<< this I think calls for careful steps and a machete
kakobrekla: this one:
<trinque> frustrate you by hiding functionality of the underlying
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<trinque> SQL also, "lets make a language for accountants and other non-programmers"
< yet is anyone still writing raw queries in this day?
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