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nubbins`: sorry, i know all i'm doing is pasting links
today
assbot: Could we make a "silk road for medicine", where users can buy not only medicine, but medical advice?
Tipping for feedback. : Bitcoin ... (
http://bit.ly/1anI1ga )
ben_vulpes: failed
to satisfy master while starving,
time...
nubbins`: srs
tho, been making cereal for about a month now.
top yum
nubbins`: "have a scratch,
then bake it; natch"
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform:
that is what i
thought!
trinque: punkman: hey dude, what's
the encoding of
the old deeds
table's deed field?
ben_vulpes: surely i'm not
that drunk yet i
thought we were
talking of ilka
decimation: in
the us most of
these schemes are 'sold
mircea_popescu: decimation no, it's more like "why would a pretty girl like you go do
this whorish stupid
thing ?"
decimation: I was
thinking in
the sense
that 'why should I buy from your dumbass amway when I already have a guy for
that'
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> <+ben_vulpes> boss your penchant for recasting everything as a result of your own actions is endlessly amusing <<< i came for
the btc, stayed for
the lels << hey, if obama can save
the economy...
mircea_popescu: i suppose one needs
the particular idiocies of
the us for
the particular forms of
the us idiocy
to manifest.
decimation: I bet cultures
that are largely 'peer
to peer' are immune
to 'multi-level marketing'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally - amway never
took off in romania.
nubbins`: <+ben_vulpes> boss your penchant for recasting everything as a result of your own actions is endlessly amusing <<< i came for
the btc, stayed for
the lels
mircea_popescu: nubbins` ^ exactly like
that, but in
the other stupid colors.
ben_vulpes: may it drain
the usg's coffers and drive her
to hitherto unprecedented printing sprees.
mircea_popescu: not books have been nominated in
the category, let’s say it’s not an original work) but a collection of right-wing chain emails and one liners–which, among other works
mircea_popescu: The ballot looks ridiculous. John C. Wright has
three nominations in
the novella category and six overall, a record.
The vast majority of
the works are published by Castalia House, a Finnish micropublisher barely a year old and owned, I’m sure coincidentally, by Vox Day. Wisdom From My Internet, nominated in
the Best Related Work category, is neither science fiction, nor, strictly speaking, a book, (Edit: many
things
ben_vulpes: here's
to
the minimum wage and full employment!
nubbins`: <+mircea_popescu> right. and brokeback mountain isn't an endless piece of meaningless cheese. because polarities. <<< in fairness,
the book was under 100 pages
mircea_popescu: ".And
to an author of integrity, it’s a pointless act of bullying, because if you don’t compete against
the best, an award is meaningless."
mircea_popescu: o wait. bitching at excellent scientists because
they didn't say stupid-thing-x-about-our-aggenda is not laughably petty and outright idiotic.
mircea_popescu: "4. None of
this is strictly speaking against
the rules. It’s unethical. It’s almost laughably petty and mean-spirited."
mircea_popescu: really, opposing "social justice" implies one supports... injustice ? how about
the obvious "social-anything is stupid, for many reasons we won't rehash, and never has anything
to do with
the vanilla version" ?
mircea_popescu: W is, I hope you’re enjoying your new computer. It stands for Social Justice Warrior, which
to a normal person sounds like someone who fights for justice and cares about all human beings, and
to conservatives like
the devil himself.
The implication
that
they
then must support injustice seems
to be lost.
mircea_popescu: 3.
The group is of
the opinion
that
their work was being overlooked because of
their politics, and
that
the Hugo ballots and winners of
the last several years were only awarded due
to leftist politics and
the racial/sexual/gender identities of
their authors, not quality.
The
tenor of
the call
to arms was explicitly and often resoundingly political–“this is your chance
to hurt SJWs.” If you don’t know what an SJ
ben_vulpes: trinque:
thanks man.
there's a lot of rebel foundation stuff in
there i need published again.
ben_vulpes: apropos of nothing, what kind of retarded programming situation *even permits* for
the bitcoin reward overflow bug in
the first place?!
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> entirely
transparent project
to reduce hiring costs << moar like, entirely
transparent admission
that "well, mp said he's killing us, we're as good as dead, might as well give up"
mircea_popescu: not because economy's dead and whoever has "investors"
to connect
them
to
the printing
teat can simply dictate
terms.
mircea_popescu: decimation yea, i'm sure
THAT's why
they don't negotiate.
ben_vulpes: trinque: i need
those legacy deeds in deedbot.
mircea_popescu: except, of course, english is about as relevant
to
tanzania as korean
to
the us.
mircea_popescu: hey look at
that.
tanzanian kids read about as well as us kids.
mircea_popescu: Like many other African countries,
Tanzania has made huge strides in expanding basic services like health and education.
The primary school enrollment rate, for instance, is officially at 94%. But “unofficial” statistics suggest
the quality of
those services is often quite poor.
mircea_popescu: But in
the spirit of
thumbing one’s nose at government overreach, here’s a sampling of unofficial, but highly reputable statistics about
Tanzania
that might explain what’s going on.
assbot: Logged on 22-10-2014 17:16:44; mats_cd03:
this sounds like something i want
to be involved in
ben_vulpes: jesus i will never live
that squeeze
thing down
ben_vulpes: entirely
transparent project
to reduce hiring costs
decimation: of course reddit doesn't even need
to pay employees, what with having a vast reservoir of people who would gladly pay
to work
there
ben_vulpes: and
the analogue here is "holes are unpleasant"?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform, decimation: 'cixi' << a reference
to
the dowager empress?
decimation: there are plenty of folks who are willing
to pose with 'a hand on
the captain's wheel'
decimation: in
the late 50's and 60's
the nuclear force was largely run by actual people, who had agendas
that made sense
decimation: but here's
the
thing: apparently even
the nuclear defense/attack commanders have been 'cixi-ized'
decimation: it's amazing how
the interests of
the 'public at large' (even 'usg at large') can be usurped by some bureaucrat who likes a nice window office
decimation: asciilifeform: you can imagine how it would cramp
the style of a high ranking usg 'staffer'
to report for duty inside a hole
decimation: usg paid $bil
to hollow out mountain,
then paid $$
to modernize it after 2001,
then decided it was 'too small' in 2006 (apparently nukes weren't a concern anymore) and now has suddenly seen wisdom in moving back into
the bunker
ben_vulpes: thirty seconds later, "you know, i'm not
the sort of guy
to insist on a full foot-down stop from bikers at every stop sign. but DUDE! you came
through
that intersection at easily over 20 mph!"
ben_vulpes: i accidentally a stop sign at oh 30 mph on my bike
the other day, right in front of a copper.
decimation: after all it's not like
the fbi can't come up with an excuse
to arrest you if
they wish
BingoBoingo: In my understanding outside of very large cities, grants
tend
to push local police
toward
the most
tedious
tasks
ben_vulpes: maybe
this socialist utopia's
the last holdout. federales have been leaning hard on
them for cracking a few
too many crackpot brainpans, and beating up on brown folks.
ben_vulpes: decimation: don't cities operate
their own police force?
decimation: asciilifeform: actually I would posit
that
the us mostly has a 'Gendarmerie'
ben_vulpes: third world nomenclature isn't really my
thing.