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mircea_popescu:
<ascii_field> MOAR return for GIVEN amount of discipline.
<< this is fundamentally how it doesn't work.
assbot: Logged on 02-02-2015 06:58:18; asciilifeform: but being tall, which someone CAN NOT get,
<<<< ahahha. soviet science winz again. had a process for -actually- growing taller.
mircea_popescu:
<jurov> which is imo dubious way to "keep the herd out"
<< the secret we're not ready for is that all ways to keep the herd out are dubious ways to keep the herd out.
mircea_popescu: * kakobrekla suspekts there will be more Things before there are less Things
<<< i am of the hope that we're done with things and will be a proliferation of subthings. because fuck me if i'm going all the way into microbiology to fix computing.
mircea_popescu: "Dove is telling you you don't need to do anything to be beautiful, but it knows full well women must do something to themselves to feel good about themselves"
<< aha. and now tell me WHY THAT IS ?
mircea_popescu: "If your reaction is “Marina who?” then here’s a brief introduction."
<< how ab out "then this article has no fucking point, nobody cares about obscure if colorful manhattan garbage girls"
gribble: williamdunne was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 7 weeks, 2 days, 10 hours, 27 minutes, and 45 seconds ago:
<williamdunne> But yah
punkman: mod6: So, I'd hate to do webdevelopment or whatever, but it sure beats humping logs all day.
<< I'll second that
mircea_popescu: "See also Princeton, where you will pay them more to get the degree that they will then pay you less to use for them, in no other profession is learning how to do something more valuable than actually doing it. Is that ironic? "
<< it's not a profession, it's a fandom. and in all fandoms, you pay them more than they pay you, that's the definition.
mircea_popescu: How do you make a child know himself? You surround him with mirrors. "This is what everyone else sees when you do what you do. This is who everyone thinks you are."
<<< mno, that's how you make a child become a girl.
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 00:32:40; mircea_popescu:
<mod6> had to find a new mine, place in tower of fascism was bought, outsourced all jobs to bangladesh or some place.
<<< seems alf's going through exactly the same.
mircea_popescu:
<mod6> had to find a new mine, place in tower of fascism was bought, outsourced all jobs to bangladesh or some place.
<<< seems alf's going through exactly the same.
☟︎ mod6:
<+mircea_popescu> iirc he also judges new stripper in a six county area.
<< my speciality
mod6:
<+thestringpuller> news to me
<< they're the gf's
mod6:
<+ascii_field> what does mod6 do for living anyway
<< professional shit shoveler
mircea_popescu: "with liquid cooling fluid bubbling over its brain"
<< if the coolant bubbles you got serious problems. it's not supposed to do that.
gribble: artifexd was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 28 weeks, 0 days, 23 hours, 47 minutes, and 45 seconds ago:
<artifexd> I'm comfortable calling it a review. Not just of what it is but what it was and how it got to where it is.
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 19:03:04; PeterL: mircea_popescu: there is no reason under the sun to process, manage, consider or in any way interact with subdollar transactions.
<< you are going to link min bet amounts to the USD/BTC price now? are you going to have the website show the "estimated $ amount" like the VC circus sites do?
punkman: ascii_field: summary of what punkman thought of the other works ?
<< not at all
lobbes: kakobreklaa: fuckin chanserv
<< I know what you mean. I had to ghost my nick off earlier
PeterL: mircea_popescu: there is no reason under the sun to process, manage, consider or in any way interact with subdollar transactions.
<< you are going to link min bet amounts to the USD/BTC price now? are you going to have the website show the "estimated $ amount" like the VC circus sites do?
☟︎ trinque: The Department of Defense's posture on cybersecurity ultimately affects national security.
<< There's a deep cultural flaw in this sentence emanating from the word posture.
mircea_popescu:
<jurov> punkman, on superficial look it does not return getblock() data anymore
<< nuts. so 0.11 is forked off the network then ?
mircea_popescu:
<jurov> i tried to sync my 0.5.4 to core 0.11, it won't sync
<< this is a horribru error message.
mircea_popescu:
<assbot> Pentagon Farmed Out Its Coding to Russia - The Daily Beast
<< ahahahaha no, really ?
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> adding tcp would prolly double or triple the mass, though
<< the challenge would be to not write the worst piece of the completed assemblage.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: i'm still waiting for the magical 1986 or so of our day, when thinking people stop even recreationally giving a shit about the stuffed shirts
<< Too late BitBet exists
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> who the fuck are they gonna pick ? jeb ? the doc nobody heard of ?
<< Doctor Stoner is actually leading now. Rubio appears to be the establishment alternative now that Jeb is dead in the water
BingoBoingo:
<liquidassets> ...
<< full disclosure via logs is most correct thing for honeytrapping no?
<< Yes, like that time I blogged the FBI visit to my front door
trinque: ShrinkDebugFile()
<< lol, the autism in this thing
☟︎ BingoBoingo: "Of course the political assassination theory neglects motive for killing the real estate agent instead of killing the sheriff."
<< better?
mircea_popescu: "Apple's fabrication partners appear to be taking the opposite approach, which is to select parts whose tolerance errors cancel each other out."
<< this is wartime engineering.
mircea_popescu: "|Ulanoff completely fails to examine this "oh yeah, we suck in some areas claim". Why? The guy's a "car reporter". No more, no less. If he says negative things about the companies that pay his salary, he gets fired and the publication for whom he works never gets another scoop/lead/exclusive."
<< BUT WHY ?
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> how come nobody says 'parallel killer'
<< Like McVeigh?
assbot: Logged on 04-11-2015 13:43:59; mod6:
<+mircea_popescu> that's not so good.
<+asciilifeform> which is not a thing that you want.
<< Ah, ok. Thanks for looking at it. Instead of using ~/.gnupg, would it be alright to create a ~/.gpgtmp upon startup and rm ~/.gpgtmp when complete?
mircea_popescu: "How long would it take for Toyota to start living up to these accusations in earnest? And why should it not do so? What is to be gained from corporate sainthood?"
<< "De ce te uiti de parca ti-am furat ceva. Daca tot te uiti asa, mai bine ti-as fura."